Source: Vicki Hyatt, THE MOUNTAINEER, 6/2/20


Editor's Note
This story was updated Tuesday, June 2, after the first 180 available hogs had been pre-ordered. A waiting list is being kept for a second delivery.

Haywood County has set a first in the state with what some are calling “hillbilly hogs.” Late last week, Haywood County resident Bill Yarborough, an assistant to N.C. Secretary of Agriculture Steve Troxler, proposed that some of the hogs destined to be chloroformed and landfilled because of a break in the processing chain, instead be shipped live to the Southeast Livestock Exchange in Canton. He was roundly ridiculed for the idea. People won’t know what to do with a live hog ready to process, he was told. Some will come to pick it up in a Voltswagon, plus the animal rights folks will go crazy.

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