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Livers play a role in the digestion of food, but a fetus (of a pig or of any other mammal) does not eat food, it gets all its nutrition directly from the mother's blood by way of the placenta, therefore, the fetal liver has nothing to do. It is only there because the pig will need it once it is born.

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