The meat off of these hogs is acutally really good. I prefer it over store bought. The only reason being is the hogs feed in wine vineyards during this time of year, no grass, roots, etc.. the other half of the year they feed on barley on the other ranches in the area. So these hogs no matter how big are extremely good eating, nice pink meat. There are alot of places around the coast and even souther california that offer pig tags on private property, problem is alot of people know about it already and trying to get one is almost impossible.