Could cannabis improve pork flavor? Weed-fed pigs creating stir
Story Date: 11/5/2018

 

Source: Jennifer Shike, AGWEB, 11/2/18


Editor's Note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the sources and do not represent the views of Farm Journal Media. Pigs at Moto Perpetuo Farm aren’t getting high on cannabis, but some say their pork is better because of it. This integrated legal marijuana farming operation in Forest Grove, Ore., is not only raising cannabis-fed pigs, they’re also raising a few eyebrows. Brent Young and Ben Turley, owners of The Meat Hook, a butcher shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., followed the process of “weed-fed pork” from pig to plate on Eater, a YouTube site for food and restaurant obsessives.

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