Nate Pontius

It's critical on how that animal is raised.

Most pork is not raised well in this country, unfortunately.

Well, cows and sheep are ruminants, which means their digestive system kind of upchucks their cud and they double digest it.

And so it makes their meat healthier in a sense.

The pigs have a digestive system more like ours.

And so the thought is that because they don't chew their own cud properly,

Their meat is unclean and also because they can't sweat and remove certain toxins from their body, it also gets trapped.

All in all, 99% of pork in this country is not awesome.

And I know this for a fact because the...

Where I grew up in Illinois, we have some of the largest commercial hog farms that are just like mile long warehouses stocked with thousands and thousands of pigs.

And I actually, as a kid, went with my uncle to one of these places that he worked at.

And I was so excited to go to this pig farm.

And I thought I was going to be like interacting with pigs, like on a field or something.

And I went into this massive warehouse and my job for the day was walking down this massive aisle.

The pigs were so loud.

You had to wear ear protection, like screaming louder than gunfire.

And I was just shoveling dead piglets that mamas had rolled over on because they're just like standing in these crates side by side on concrete slabs.

And I just shoveled hundreds of dead piglets into a...

into a trash can all day long.

And so that was my first experience with like pig farming.