Cinta Senese and Large White x Cinta Senese raised on pasture in wood: sample join composition and meat quality

During recent years animal welfare has received considerable attention in Europe. To satisfy the demand for better ethics and health regarding pigs, it has become popular to raise pigs outdoors. In Mediterranean area free-ranged system is carried out with indigenous breed. In Italy Cinta Senese is one of the main autochthonous breed. In past times Cinta Senese sows were frequently crossed with Large White boars in order to obtain the so called “grigio”, which could be proposed, nowadays, as industrial crossing. Aim of this work is to study the effects of genetic type and rearing density on sample join composition and meat quality traits.