Eye On Europe: Mangalitsa swine: there’s plenty of meat under all that wool!

Breeders of these curly-coated Hungarian pigs are finding out that demand for their fat-marbled meat is attracting premium prices.

by NORMAN DUNN

Pork meat from the heavy, curly-coated woolly swine, the Mangalitsa, is selling in the United States, and now in Spain, for at least 30 per cent more than meat from conventional commercial hybrids.