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The Fruit Hunters , a 2012 documentary by Montreal filmmaker Yung Chang based on the book of the same name by Adam Leith Gollner, is now streaming on Netflix. It’s the kind of documentary that explores an obscure fascination – it illuminates and celebrates something that most of us view as everyday, standard fare.

Finally, the bond between sheep and man gets its own movie.

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It could hop-pen to be a bunny, or possibly a pig. Eight choices, one correct answer. Get it right and you'll be entered to win!

In many ways, pigs are much like us. In this way, they are not.

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