Hampshire.) Meat, I would explain to my fascinated audience, makes pig manure smell bad. A vegetarian pig’s manure has a nice earthy smell to it, as well as a pleasant shape and texture, rather like a small loaf of braided bread. But add meat to the diet, and it stinks, gets all sticky, and falls through the tines of the pitchfork. It also ruins the compost pile. Do you add dog droppings to the tomato patch in the summer? Of course not. But a vegetarian pig’s manure is garden gold.