Namely chitterlings -- a traditionally Southern delicacy made from pig intestines -- and barbecue pork.

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Robert Overend, himself a pig farmer, says the high pound has made exporting difficult and resulted in a flood of low priced imports onto the United Kingdom market.

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It's just one of the tricks that has made Wendell Murphy a billionaire in the world's most down-to-earth business: pig farming.

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Another piece is a clay vessel in the form of a piglet that was made nearly 3, 000 years before the Old Testament book of Leviticus made the pig anathema in most of the Middle East.

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