Writer: 'Can You Get Me a Gallon of Pig's Blood?'
If you think that’s raspberry sauce in the picture accompanying FBDC Contributor Peter Ogburn‘s food piece for NPR this week, you’re in for a frightening surprise.
Actually, it’s pig’s blood. And from a pig he killed with a nail gun to the brain. After the animal was strung up by its hind legs, Ogburn took a knife and slit its throat. “It was insane. I straight up cried after. It’s one thing to order pork chops in a restaurant, it’s another to see the animal die,” he said during an afternoon phone conversation.
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