Video by Journal-World photographer Richard Gwin (see below)

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You’ll find no bacon in the Whitney
home. Nor will you find pork chops or
a holiday ham.

Not since the young couple adopted the
newest member of their family last
December, a Juliana potbelly pig named
Gatsby.

“We had him for a month and I said,
‘I’m not eating pork anymore, I’m only
eating chicken,'” said Holly Whitney,
Gatsby’s adoptive mother. “Then I went
from there to being a pescatarian and
now I’m a vegetarian.”

Kyle Whitney, Gatsby’s adoptive
father, said he couldn’t go as far as
cutting meat entirely out of his diet,
but he has stopped eating pork.

“And I used to eat bacon all the
time,” he laughs. “I’ll be honest with
you, I do miss it, but we just can’t
do it.”

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