Question: why do pigs eat anything?

Angela Stokes answered on 13 Nov 2014:

Hi there monkey pig!
They don’t actually eat ‘anything’ – they eat any organic material like fruit peels and the remnants of cans and cartons. Prior to the advent of factory farming pigs were used to eat fallen fruit in orchards which kept insects like fruit flies and apple maggots from ruining the crop. That being said they have been known to eat other pigs and would probably eat other animals and people if they could. They are omnivores and so have teeth but wouldn’t be able to chew on bones, They are really just one of lifes scavengers.