New boar feed could be the silver bullet in preventing ‘stinkers’

Animal feed company Dumoulin have developed a feed to prevent boar meat from smelling after heating. Head of research Werner Reuter considers this a breakthrough. “Our feed could be the answer to conventional castration.” Boar taint is the offensive odour that can be evident during the cooking or heating of pork or pork products derived from non-castrated male pigs once they have reached puberty. For many years, companies have been trying to develop alternative strategies and to come up wit