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• @gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-11-02 23:26

  i guess that guinea pigs were called that way because they might have been used as meat-producers in the past. i.e. city-dwellers who didn’t have enough space for a full-sized pig would hold a guinea pig in their apartment to feed and slaughter it once a year to have some source of meat. (remember that meat was scarce and expensive in earlier times).

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