On the subject of the lack of a pig milk industry

The question has been asked before, why don't we drink pig milk? After months of research, a satisfactory answer has been found!

Guy Petzall, the champion of the consumer, has made a website where he emails corporations asking for those questions that trouble our existence.

One of his letters was directed to the Illinois Pork Producer's Association.

Pigs are mammals too. They lactate, don't they? Why don't we harvest it?

Does their milk taste bad? It is toxic? Is it simply unattractive, perhaps an opalescent brown-green that blinds all to its delicious flavor?

Is it hard to milk a pig? Do they produce enough milk to make it worthwhile? Is it too viscous or thin to be of any industrial or domestic use?

Can you make cheese from pork milk? Or yogurt? Or butter?

The consumer-caring IPPA has clarified why don't they produce pig milk!

Porcine do lactate and their milk I will assume would taste great, because it is made of 8.5% fat in relation to the fat that makes up 3.5% of the components in cows milk. The other components such as lactose and water are found at nearly the same percentages in pig's milk. However, pigs will on average produce 13 lbs of milk in a day as compared to cows that produce 65 lbs of milk on average per day. Pigs unlike cows cannot become pregnant while lactating and therefore possess a severe economic problem to producers. whfle pigs consume less feed per day, economics does not allow pigs to be a viable source of dairy products.

The biggest challenge facing the porcine dairy industry is collecting the product. Pigs on average have fourteen teats as opposed to cows that have four teats. Pigs also differ from cows in their milk ejection time, a cows milk ejection is stimulated by the hoimone oxytocin and can last ten minutes, where as a pig's milk ejection time only last fifleen seconds as the suckling pigs stimulate the release of oxytoc in. The technology of a 14 cupped mechanized milking machine that can milk a pig in 15 seconds is not available to pork producers.

I hope I have answered your questions and I encourage you to think about developing a pig milking machine as you eat your bacon in the fixture.

Fascinating, isn't it? This explains why there isn't a pig milk industry, but the mystery surrounding its taste is still unresolved.