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Everybody should have a pig, or maybe 2-3 houses should share a pig for food waste, just so it doesn't get wasted and everyone gets good protein by the end of t

Everybody should have a pig, or maybe 2-3 houses should share a pig for food waste, just so it doesn't get wasted and everyone gets good protein by the end of the year. Been thinking about this for a while, don't know how to promote this idea more

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Everybody should have a pig You're describing peasants. Playing peasant doesn't work at scale. Imagine the environmental impact and economic destruction giving everyone in Tokyo and New York farm animals would entail. > maybe 2-3 houses should share a pig But sometimes some people don't want to eat pork. No worries, we have the law of large numbers. A thousand people can share a pool of pigs. Someone is vegetarian? What if those who want to participate share a pig? Some people are tired of pork? People are moving in and out? What if we have a pool of pigs that are slaughtered from time to time, and you can take what you want when you want it? Oh right. That's a store. We circled back to a butcher. If you care about this, 4-H has a program where kids raise a farm animal to sell at auction. > just so it doesn't get wasted Hunters I know are close to zero waste. Farmers? No clear link between raising a chicken and e.g. eating its gizzard.
- gigel82 3y ago
  I think the point they were making was that pigs eat food scraps of all kinds, and produce organic fertilizer (in addition to meat). It's an interesting idea, but it definitely doesn't work in the cities and I bet most folks in the suburbs wouldn't tolerate the smell either. But maybe if we force supermarkets to give out expired food to coop farmers for animal feed instead of just throwing it out in the dumpster, we could be on to something.
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > if we force supermarkets to give out expired food to coop farmers for animal feed instead of just throwing it out in the dumpster Getting fresh produce from farms to shoppers involves enough waste. You need to transform the waste into something non-perishable, so transport can be done lazily. Composting, perhaps?
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3y ago
You should have the pig first for couple of months until you promote it.
chinchilla2020 3y ago
micro-farming is actually more environmentally destructive and wasteful than factory farming. It's a lot harder to regulate and control 10000 peasant farms than 1 large factory farm that has proper processes in place.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Everybody should have a pig You're describing peasants. Playing peasant doesn't work at scale. Imagine the environmental impact and economic destruction giving everyone in Tokyo and New York farm animals would entail. > maybe 2-3 houses should share a pig But sometimes some people don't want to eat pork. No worries, we have the law of large numbers. A thousand people can share a pool of pigs. Someone is vegetarian? What if those who want to participate share a pig? Some people are tired of pork? People are moving in and out? What if we have a pool of pigs that are slaughtered from time to time, and you can take what you want when you want it? Oh right. That's a store. We circled back to a butcher. If you care about this, 4-H has a program where kids raise a farm animal to sell at auction. > just so it doesn't get wasted Hunters I know are close to zero waste. Farmers? No clear link between raising a chicken and e.g. eating its gizzard.

gigel82 3y ago
I think the point they were making was that pigs eat food scraps of all kinds, and produce organic fertilizer (in addition to meat). It's an interesting idea, but it definitely doesn't work in the cities and I bet most folks in the suburbs wouldn't tolerate the smell either. But maybe if we force supermarkets to give out expired food to coop farmers for animal feed instead of just throwing it out in the dumpster, we could be on to something.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > if we force supermarkets to give out expired food to coop farmers for animal feed instead of just throwing it out in the dumpster Getting fresh produce from farms to shoppers involves enough waste. You need to transform the waste into something non-perishable, so transport can be done lazily. Composting, perhaps?

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3y ago

You should have the pig first for couple of months until you promote it.

chinchilla2020 3y ago

micro-farming is actually more environmentally destructive and wasteful than factory farming. It's a lot harder to regulate and control 10000 peasant farms than 1 large factory farm that has proper processes in place.