05/22/2026
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What happened to pork? If this means anything to you share away ❤️
Not even in a dramatic way. Seriously.
Go look at the ingredients on a normal pack of grocery store bacon or pepperettes sometime. Some of them have 15–20 ingredients in them. Smoke flavour, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, preservatives, fillers, water retention additives, all kinds of stuff most people don’t even think about anymore.
And before people jump in, yes, I understand why.
Industrial pork systems are built to feed millions of people cheaply and consistently. Huge barns, huge processing plants, long-distance shipping, long shelf life.
But there’s also a tradeoff to raising animals this way.
More confinement usually means:
* more disease pressure
* more stress
* more intervention
* more vaccines
* more processing
* more things added afterward to preserve and standardize the final product
That’s not even an attack on farmers. Most are just working inside the system they inherited, shoe string budgets and regulations almost make it impossible to implement changes.
But I do think people are starting to question how industrialized food has become.
Our smoked pork is simple:
pork, water, salt, sugar, sodium nitrite, spices, and real smoke.
That’s it. That’s all, have you ever tried pork from a local farm?
And our pigs live outside rooting through pasture, mud, forests, grass and leaves like pigs are supposed to.
I’m not saying the entire system is evil. I’m saying people deserve another option. Simpler ingredients. More transparency. Pork that actually tastes like pork again.
Because honestly, once you’ve had naturally raised pork, it’s hard to go back.
