Couple Who Bid for Pig at Auction to Rescue It Find They Were Buying Its Meat

A Florida couple who won a pig at a state fair auction, intending to save it from the slaughterhouse, discovered the animal would be killed anyway and they had spent $4,700 on its meat.

Meg and Eric Weinberger, who run the Rescue Life sanctuary in Palm Beach Gardens, insist officials from the South Florida Fair gave no notification that they were bidding in a “terminal” auction of livestock raised solely for processing.

They believe but have not been able to confirm that the pig they fell in love with, named Bella B Swine by the teen who raised it, has now been killed. They say fair managers told them they were only entitled to the 186lbs of meat.

“It did not say it was a slaughter–only auction, otherwise we’d have turned around and walked away,” Meg Weinberger said.

“They said it was state law that the animal had to be slaughtered, but other fairs in Florida allow auction winners to take the animals with them. You can keep the meat, donate the meat or take the animal home.” (Read more from “Couple Who Bid for Pig at Auction to Rescue It Find They Were Buying Its Meat” HERE)

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