What do you never crave?

OOO but what about bacon?

@pennynoodles: not even pork bacon, I do like turkey bacon though

@cherokeepatti: liking bacon stops me being a vegetarian

@cherokeepatti: not even pork bacon? 😲

@elVato: nope

@cherokeepatti: i'm actually tearing up.

@elVato: Think of it this way: More bacon in the world for the rest of you...

@cherokeepatti: Yay to that...thank you 🙂

@cherokeepatti: 🤗

i do cure me up some gooooood bacon

I haven't eaten anything pork for nearly 50 years, although I was born on a farm and we had some hogs. They are saying that MRSA started in hog farms in the USA, and a lot of other diseases that I don't want...

@cherokeepatti: do you know prior to humans domesticating animals, when we were nomadic, they rarely ever got 'colds'? A majority of all our communicable diseases came from animals. When i was a kid we lived near a pig farm for a while. During the summer months the smell was unbearable.
When some of the hogs died or whatever the farmer would just drag the bodies out into the woods. Us kids would come across the either bloated or exploded carcasses while playing in the woods. Creepy.

@elVato: The influenza virus replicates and mutates in pigs (and geese) farms in China and travels throughout the world. There are over 80 diseases that hogs carry, and when they escape and become feral hogs they are spreading those diseases in the soil, lakes, ponds and rivers where ever they are living and breeding. Every county in Oklahoma (77 total) has had a problem with feral hogs running loose tearing up yards or spreading diseases. Hunters will hunt & eat them and they are being encouraged to in order to eradicate their numbers. MRSA was caused by using antibiotics on pigs on hog farms. When I was a teen we lived in a rural area, there were a few houses in our area and our acreage backed up to a neighbor's lot, he was German and thought it a good idea to start raising some pigs to eat...put them on the back of his lot which backed up to our home. The smell was horrible especially if the wind blew towards our home or there was no wind at all and he also had about 3 dozen ducks that he had raised back there. Within a year he hogs had eaten all the ducks, you'd hear one scream and the hog would eat it and then there'd be feathers.

@elVato: I was driving along a motorway one day when this really revolting smell came through the air vent. It was prob the worst smell I've ever smelt. About half a mile up the motorway, a rotting pig and piglets had fallen off a lorry and that was where the smell was coming from. Didn't put me off bacon though 😜

@pennynoodles: Cherokees didn't have pigs before the Europeans came. When they tried to trade Cherokees and use pigs for trade the Cherokees told them they weren't fit to eat. Recent genetic tests have found that Cherokees are descendants of Middle Eastern Jews...and that may have been the reason they were refusing to take pigs as meat. Of course today most Cherokees have intermarried and eat pork like most other Americans do. I don't and it was my choice. My grandmother didn't eat it and said she was allergic to pork and lard...pigs are bottom feeders and have a higher risk of causing allergies.

@cherokeepatti: they are also omnivorous and will eat people, if given the chance.

@elVato: I know. One time my aunt almost got eaten by a mother hog....she went out to feed them and got in the pen and the hog came charging at her, she jumped over the fence and the hog grabbed the bottom of her dress and ripped the whole skirt off. She had to walk back to the house with no dress from the waist down, lol. I was always scared of them.