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Do pigs naturally eat meat?

I know that domestic pigs will eat most things and that starving pigs will scavenge carrion if pushed - however, I was under the impression that wild pigs are clean and mostly herbivorous.

Can anyone shed some light providing citations and evidence please?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Pigs are omnivores with a penchant for truffles. They will eat anything they fancy.

    Diet

    Omnivorous, rooting in litter for roots, nuts, fungi, small animals and carrion.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The Qur’an prohibits the intake of pork in a minimum of four distinct places. for instance: 'Forbidden to you (for food) are: useless meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the call of except Allah.' [Al-Qur’an 5:3]. What maximum Christians do not realize is that this is likewise written interior the bible, albeit in distinct words: 'And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth no longer the cud, this is unclean unto you. Ye shall no longer eat of their flesh, nor contact their useless carcass.' [Deuteronomy 14:8] the rationalization for this practise is because eating pork may reason a minimum of seventy sorts of ailments. someone may have a variety of of helminthes like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, and so on. between the most deadly is Taenia Solium, it is in lay guy’s terminology observed as tapeworm. It harbours interior the gut and is rather lengthy. Its ova i.e. eggs, enter the blood pass and may want to attain pretty a lot each of the organs of the body. If it enters the mind it may reason memory loss. If it enters the middle it may reason heart attack, if it enters the interest it may reason blindness, if it enters the liver it may reason liver damage. it may damage pretty a lot each of the organs of the body. yet another risky helminthes is Trichura Tichurasis. an effortless false impression about pork is that even if this is cooked properly, those ova die. In a study undertaking undertaken in united states of america of america, it replaced into got here upon that out of twenty-4 human beings plagued by Trichura Tichurasis, twenty 2 had cooked the pork ok. this suggests that the ova latest interior the pork do no longer die lower than known cooking temperature. Oh, and kosher skill food that fulfills the criteria of Jewish regulation.

  • DJJD
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Yes, they like meat. They are omnivores and have a similar digestive system to a human. They are just not as fussy as we are. Wild pigs will eat anything.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I have not heard of pigs earing meat but I have heard of them to eat truffles but I have seen pigs in apple orchards eating windfalls of the ground.

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  • Have you not seen the teeth/tusks on the average wild boar? They aren't for ripping up cabbages.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes ,but they are not predators, i.e.- they will not hunt and kill a live animal; they would eat the meat though. They are not fussy.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Being omnivores, they will eat anything they can get into their snouts. Just like humans.

  • 1 decade ago
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    they will eat any thing

  • 1 decade ago

    and a lot of other stuff

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