Pigs and piglets share a communal feed in Delhi

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Eating like pigs is what they are doing! Pigs can be farmed as free range, being allowed to wander around a village, kept in fields, or tethered in a simple house.There are many different kinds of pig. Some pigs have a pink skin but there are brown, white and black skinned pigs too. Some pigs have patterns or spots. Something in skin called pigment makes the colour and it's different for different pig breeds. Pigs do not sweat, so they wallow in mud to cool their bodies. The mud also protects a pig from insect bites and from sunburn. Because they roll in mud, pigs often look mucky and people think that they are dirty animals. But pigs are clean animals! In developed countries, farming has moved away from traditional pig farming and pigs are now typically intensively farmed. Today, pig farm