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Learning to Look Death in the Eye: What a Pig Roast Taught Me About Life

Learning to Look Death in the Eye: What a Pig Roast Taught Me About Life
Meat from a roasted pig in Concord, N.H., in this file photo. AP Photo/Matthew Mead
Mollie Engelhart
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If you had told me five years ago—when I was a vegan chef in Los Angeles—that I would one day help load a 250-pound pig onto a spit for a Fourth of July roast, I would’ve laughed. That would never happen. I couldn’t even look at raw meat without feeling queasy.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom — a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.