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About 20 years ago I stayed for two weeks on a rural rice farm in Goa. The toilets fed directly into the pig sty. Very directly down a short chute add though a
by webignition 7y ago
About 20 years ago I stayed for two weeks on a rural rice farm in Goa.
The toilets fed directly into the pig sty. Very directly down a short chute add though a hole. An eager pig snout poked through the hole could make contact. Never before nor never again have I been so startled.
- swombat 7y agoBut... why... Pigs don’t eat human faeces...
- webignition 7y agoI have seen first hand that they do, not that I wish I hadn't.
- avip 7y agoPigs eat everything, including humans.
- ohiovr 7y agoPigs even eat pork. There is currently a problem with swine fever infected pork being reintroduced as feed in places like china. It is one of several vectors for the lethal (to pigs) disease.
- benj111 7y agoWell to be fair, if you were served some nameless meat, would you be confident in your ability to identify human and/ or not like the taste of it? Chickens will eat egg shells, and it's apparently a good source of minerals for them. You do have to scrunch them up, or else, from what I understand, they start associating egg shells with food, and start pecking their own eggs.
- all2 7y agoIts also good to bake them for a bit. It helps with the 'scrunching' and nutrient availability (so I've been told).
- darkpuma 7y agoPigs eat anything. Well, maybe not rocks. I'm not sure about that though, they might still try.
- siruncledrew 7y agoIf you want to see what happens when pigs that eat near human faeces are eaten by us: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/health/brain-parasites-case-study/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/health/brain-parasites-case-s...
- lostlogin 7y agoThe CDC specifically say that you don’t get cysticerosis from eating pork, though the correlation with pigs eating human faeces is mentioned. As always, it seems that washing your hands is important. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html