11.   Sooner or later, the conversation turns to raising pigs.

12.   Some chefs insist on bacon that contains no nitrites, and others buy it from farms that raise their pigs without hormones or antibiotics.

13.   The changes have sharply reduced the number of farmers needed to raise pigs and produced more uniform animals for processors.

14.   The farmers raise pigs under contract to major hog processors, known in the business as integrators, like Murphy Family Farms of Duplin County.

15.   The Midwestern hog farmers who raise pigs for Niman have agreed to follow certain rules, and their pigs are fed no animal byproducts or antibiotics.

16.   The son of a farmer, he raised pigs as a teen-ager to help pay his college costs.

17.   They gave up raising pigs, which they once used as a litmus test for squeamish houseguests.

18.   They raise pigs.

19.   Topping raised some pigs.

20.   Unlike lamb and venison, which is the meat of much of Scotland, pork is favored in Orkney, because pigs can be raised on the difficult terrain.