Wooly Pigs: A possible key to human disease prevention

[primechild]

Wooly Pigs: A possible key to human disease prevention
http://ocm.auburn.edu/featured_story/wooly_pigs.html

for their research into mangalista being the best translational animal model (closely mimics human body)

" experiments using the Mangalitsa indicate that as they amass body fat, their systems mimic obesity-related metabolic problems that we see in people."

"In Hungary, the breed is called Mangalica, which means "hog with lots of lard," and that is quite an understatement. The carcass of a mature Mangalitsa is 70 percent fat..."

 

[Rich]

Fascinating kokiri.

What goes around comes around, however, and today, chefs at five-star restaurants on the East and West coasts increasingly are discovering that meat harvested from the Mangalitsa is more highly marbled, is of superior color and is significantly tenderer than that from Yorkshire hogs and are paying premium prices for dry-cured Mangalitsa meat.

It is fortunate there are still some of these rare breeds left and they haven't all been wiped out by big agri-business.

Edit: Up on SoTT: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244542-Wooly-Pigs-A-possible-key-to-human-diabetes-and-heart-disease-prevention