The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.