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Meat now comes exclusively from farms.  However, until the 1950's it was common for all sorts of families to have an "interest" in a pig.  Pigs were a way of converting scraps into something edible like bacon.  During the Second World War there were "Pig Clubs" in which people gave their scraps and got meat in return.   On farms, pigs would grub around during the summer and then be killed and the meat salted down for the winter.  There are some interesting quotations from Public Health Acts banning pigs from unlikely places, e.g. blocks of flats and "places used for the preparation of food" e.g. domestic kitchens.