pig spunk

Lean Value Sires is "America's largest supplier of showpig semen". On the site's front page is a QuickTime movie of Catwalk (that's him to the left), a very well-endowed exotic boar. Play the movie. The first shot is a slow zoom right onto Catwalk's enormous scrotum. Names for some of the other boars: Money Shot; Depth Charge; Hammer; and Explode. It's pig porno.

There's a lot out there that I'll never know much about. But, thanks to Harper's Magazine, now I know a little more about artificial insemination in pigs. Check out "Swine of the Times" in the May issue (not available online, unfortunately). In addition to telling the story of Lean Value Sires, the article also discusses Sleezer Fertility Center, another supplier of pig semen. Whereas Lean Value prizes diversity among its boars, Sleezer (gotta love the name) prizes genetic homogeneity. The article, by Nathanael Johnson (his site on Public Radio Exchange), is an entertaining, detailed look at this part of the pork industry. One of Johnson's goals throughout the article is to find someone masturbating a boar; he succeeds. It's not nearly as erotic as you might think. The article reads very much like a chapter in Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. It, along with a confluence of other readings I've done recently, have me thinking a lot about what I eat. More about that in a few days.

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