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TIL the Creole pig of Haiti was deliberately exterminated in the 1980s to stop an outbreak of African swine fever. Peasants were provided with imported pigs from the U.S. as compensation, but this caused many of them to lose money as the American pigs were much more expensive to maintain.

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