LINGAYEN —Not to be outdone, the town’s hog raisers and local government held its own pork festival to serve notice that the town’s hogs are free of the African Swine Fever (ASF) with a difference! 

 They didn’t only serve one type of lechon but two plus six favorite pork meals.

Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil directed that five of both the regular lechon and lechon bagoong were served and 100 kilos each of pork adobo, pork menudo, pork egado, pork dinuguan, pork sisig and pork giniling were served to the public in front of the town’s municipal hall last Wednesday.

“This is to show that the hogs from Lingayen are safe to consume and that the town is ASF free,” Bataoil said as he consumed his own share of the pork viands.

Bataoil also assured that the supply of pork products in the town is ample despite the temporary total ban on the entry of live swine or pigs as well as frozen or processed pork or hog meat into the town since Oct 2.

“We have enough supply of pork in our town even this coming holiday season since we have backyard hog raisers here,” he said.

The mayor urged the residents in this town to help protect the hog raising industry to continue eating pork and to comply with the temporary total ban.

“Our town is ASF free. Our provincial veterinary has also already certified that the pigs up to the seven-kilometer radius from ground zero (Barangay Baloling, Mapandan) are negative of ASF,” Bataoil said.

Earlier, separate lechon feasts were held in Mangaldan and Pozorrubio town for the same reason – to allay fears about ASF. (Helen Martin/Nora Dominguez)

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