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578 - New York Pigs

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Poison-Fuck Situation in Early America

Pigs are very so very self-sufficient on shore Often explorers got pigs drop my islands. They would breed there to give you by food By future explorers food you'd hunt there like all very easy the whole thing Historian Alfred Crosby quote the pig that followed the con-con keys to doors was not the fat Slow-footed creature. We are familiar with today. Once ashore He became the fast tough lean self-sufficient greyhound of a hog much closer to appearance and personality to wild boar Then to one of our 20th century hogs the Spanish swine reproduced with rapidity that delighted the pork-hungry Iberians So pigs are banging there having ham It's a great

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