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Feeding 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 20
by rob74 4y ago
Feeding 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