TV presenter Mary Berry has recalled sleeping with pigs during her childhood on the family’s smallholding. The former Great British Bake Off judge, 85, said there is “nothing dirty” about the animals and she would often take the runt to bed.
She told the Radio Times: “I was known to swaddle one and take it to bed with me. Only the runt, the little one that we had to feed from a bottle. “There’s nothing dirty about a pig, don’t believe otherwise.” And despite sleeping with the pigs, Berry said she never forgot the realities of livestock farming and the family would end up eating the animals.
She said: “Dad was very hands-on, we’d have the carcass back and he’d cut it up. We even made sausages, and of course nothing was wasted.
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