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Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?
by guynamedloren 2y ago
Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?
- nradov 2y agoSure. If you keep pigs (and chickens) then there is essentially zero food waste.
- alt227 2y agoThis is how efficient farms have worked for centuries. Orchards full of fruit trees, with sheep grazing the grass underneath, bees pollinating the flowers, and pigs in the scrubland next door to feed the windfalls to. Maximising land use to its full potential, unlike the farming monocultures of today.
- gruez 2y ago>Maximising land use to its full potential, unlike the farming monocultures of today. "Maximising land use to its full potential" (whatever that means) =/= whatever is economically optimal (ie. factoring in inputs like labor)
- hinkley 2y agoWe should be feeding pigs and chickens insects. They’re omnivores. It’s weird that we are trying to feed them entirely or mostly grain.
- pfdietz 2y agoIt's not weird; grain is cheap. Totally understandable.
- ByQuyzzy 2y agoThey'd die, just like people. Mammals in general can't digest chitin. There aren't any human populations that consume a significant amount of insect protien. It's just a trick to demoralize and humiliate the peasantry. Bugs literally aren't even fit to be fed to pigs. But I'd enjoy force feeding somebody like you more than you could handle!
- amenhotep 2y agoYou are a very strange person.
- hinkley 2y agoAre you a pig farmer? Because this has been studied many times and you’d think they’d notice. This is one situation where I can say, “how can a billion Chinese people be wrong?” without sarcasm. Roasted grasshopper is sold as a snack. Whole grasshopper. People aren’t dying from it. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9165 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9165 https://www.wired.com/story/insects-pigs-poultry/ https://www.wired.com/story/insects-pigs-poultry/ - EU approved insects for pigs and poultry in 2022 and I’m pretty sure there are farmers in Europe.
- ByQuyzzy 2y agoUgh, disgusting. No more European cured pork products for me!
- geon 2y agoPretty sure pigs eat grubs the find when they root in the dirt.
- ByQuyzzy 2y agoNah, they reject insect food. Have you ever been physically forced to eat bugs? We can change that!