Sometimes in older movies & even in documentary footage today, the animals were being killed anyway and the crew just filmed it. Though I'm only guessing right now, maybe someone who was on set has discussed it somewhere before, I'd say the cajun town was real and they killed and cooked the pigs for food, so they died a slaughterhouse style death which was filmed and added to the film for realism. No actors were involved in the scene which is the telltale.
Actually just googled this - http://www.humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/southern-comfort
When I was young and first saw the movie I found it distressing (same as certain scenes in Platoon) but as I've got older, its just a harsh reality of life. Lots of us eat meat and don't even think about where it comes from.
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