In a New Yorker podcast, Calvin Trillin says:
I live in Nova Scotia in the summer. And I hear a lot of talk about how Newfoundlanders eat mainly pork scrap.
Hey, that’s what I eat: pork scrap. (And fermented food.) Pork scrap (large pieces of pork belly, actually) is absurdly cheap: $1/pound or less.
You couldn’t pay me enough to eat American pork. Haven’t you read about Smithfield’s feedlots?