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578 - New York Pigs

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The History of Pigs in New York City

In the early 1800s New York's population explodes it goes from like 60,000 in 1800 to like 200,000 in 1820. Farmland turns into tenements and shops and factories,. It's quickly urbanized The pigs are still there They eat the garbage Uh And so their food they're important. Yeah, hey But They had to live somewhere and the farmland is just quickly vanishing. So now pigs Are living in the street Okay No problem for the pigs the pigs are like this is fine. I don't think there's a thing you can say that'll turn me on pigs There's a lot of documented cases of pigs killing children in the cityI'm not an anti-p

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