If you like eating pork but don’t want to be a part of the Factory Farming Food Chain, you have options.
Here’s a short and incomplete how to opt out of Factory Farmed Pork while continuing to eat pork:
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Get a cheap chest freezer ($200): http://tinyurl.com/lyo2zrf
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Find a farmer who raises hogs the old ways. Use Google. Call him up and ask if you can order a whole hog delivered to a meat locker near his farm (meat lockers are cool). If you can’t find one via google, ask around at local farmers’ markets.
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When the hog is ready to deliver to the meat locker/butcher, call up the butcher and discuss how the animal should be cut. For instance, do you want baby back ribs and boneless loin roast or do you prefer bone-in line pork chops? What do you want done with the shoulders? Hams? Bacon? Etc…
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Get a couple of big coolers and a minivan or station wagon and take a field trip to the meat locker, and, if you can arrange it, visit your farmer. Take a field trip, bring back frozen pork and put it in your freezer (I keep mine in the basement).
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When you want pork, plan a couple of days ahead and thaw slowly (in the fridge) for maximum food safety and minimum modification of meat texture.
