...Tourists are greeted at the Pig Adventure building by virtual guides on a life-sized flat screen waving them in. Visitors move into a large, interactive exhibit hall where they can learn about the history of pig farming; virtually chomp up pig feed on an image projected on the floor and watch a video about the Pig Adventure before taking a virtual shower just as the farmers do before entering the gestation barn.
There, visitors view the farm's operations below from second-floor exhibit halls with glass walls in climate-controlled, carpeted exhibit halls.
"We see people just staring at the interaction of the staff and pigs," DeKryger said. "There's just a lot of touch between the people and the pigs, and both are really comfortable with it."
Some 2,400 pigs in the building are either pregnant or soon will be. All of the pigs are artificially inseminated...
