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The manure itself is pretty nasty, too. Pigs on factory farms are given daily doses of antibiotics and growth-promoting additives like ractopamine, much of which ends up in their waste.

“In this case, we are looking for pig poo in particular,” Olson said. “We’re trying to get wild pig poo just because we have so many feral hogs that we thought it’d be interesting.