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Korea is another great example in recycling food waste. The country's food culture historically created a lot of food waste (although the total food waste had b
by mrpopo 4y ago
Korea is another great example in recycling food waste. The country's food culture historically created a lot of food waste (although the total food waste had been reducing lately), and being a limited territory like Singapore, they recycle everything they can. Separating food waste is mandatory and you can get fined for not doing it. They use the recovered food waste as pig feed, compost and bio-gas.
https://earth.org/food-waste-south-korea/ https://earth.org/food-waste-south-korea/
- rob74 4y agoFeeding pigs with food waste has a long tradition of course, in Eastern Europe many rural households still have one or two pigs just for this purpose, but in 2006 the EU banned that for commercial pig farming after outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease...
- mrpopo 4y agoI didn't know about that. For me this is also an ethical issue. Raising a household pig and feeding it your own food waste and leftovers is fine, but when done on an industrial scale, for commercial purposes, we are bound to see regular abuse, possibly with sanitary consequences.
- thfuran 4y agoWhy do you think that pigs fed on food waste are more likely to be abused than pigs fed other feed?
- cumshitpiss 4y agoThere are a lot of extras that appear happen in food waste i.e., plastics, paper etc. In industrial settings this is not easy to filter out, so pigs end up consuming more of these non food waste products more than they would in small farms or feed-fed pigs. There are many articles on the practice of hog garbage feeding recently