Pigs in medieval Italy – a tale of recycling

Recycling of production materials may sound like something of the current age and time, but in fact societies have done nothing but recycling for centuries. Pig Progress editor Vincent ter Beek found a nice example of re-use of pigs in an age long gone. About 2 years ago, I combined my passion and my profession in an interesting contribution on pigs in medieval Italy. Being a historian working in a pig environment I discovered tiny statues of pigs in the cloisters of a medieval church. It led m