If you have access to organic pork, that would be good.
Otherwise, common pork is factory farmed with gmo feeds.

Quote from: sparrow on September 02, 2010, 08:33:41 PM

Freezing will fix that one, as will thorough cooking.

I believe you have to freeze at colder temperatures than a typical home freezer reaches, though.

Or for longer periods of time. I think it requires 2 months in a household freezer to kill trichinosis.

Quote from: Warren Dew on September 03, 2010, 10:11:49 AM

Quote from: sparrow on September 02, 2010, 08:33:41 PM

Freezing will fix that one, as will thorough cooking.

I believe you have to freeze at colder temperatures than a typical home freezer reaches, though.

Or for longer periods of time. I think it requires 2 months in a household freezer to kill trichinosis.

Good point; it's not exactly convenient if you wanted rare pork for dinner.  I'm not sure how cold the freezers that come with refrigerators get, but I found a chart with the following guidelines:

-20 F for 6 days
-10 F for 10 days
5 F for 20 days

I'm wondering how cold my chest freezer is on its current setting.  The only questionable foods we've had in there had been frozen for a couple months already before we fed them to the dog or made them for ourselves.