Pigs Should Be Fed Leftovers To Cut Waste, Say Campaigners

[Pat Gardiner]

Pat's Note: Interesting one. I'm quite convinced that neither CSF 2000
nor FMD 2001 came from swill, either from home or imported
ingredients.

Too many lobbyists were about fabricating stories that it was the
source to believe that. All of those stories were seriously flawed and
many of those telling that tale had long records of deception.

Live imports, semen or embryos were never even mentioned publicly,
despite that being the most obvious source.

With that in mind, swill should be OK, but there has been so much
veterinary deception it is hard to be absolutely sure, and new
diseases that can be carried in food emerge on a regular basis.

It's a shame that an age old practice was banned to protect corrupt
veterinarians, but that's what you get when the politicians are afraid
to cross civil servants and their cronies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/04/pigs-should-be-fed-leftovers_n_3384277.html

Pigs Should Be Fed Leftovers To Cut Waste, Say Campaigners
PA | Posted: 05/06/2013 07:32 BST | Updated: 05/06/2013 07:32 BST

Leftovers should be put back on the menu for pigs to conserve food
supplies, cut waste and farming costs and protect the environment,
campaigners are urging.

The Pig Idea campaign wants to bring back the age-old practice of
feeding waste food to pigs and aims to encourage more use of
legally-allowed food, such as unsold bread, dairy, fruit and
vegetables that are unfit for humans, as pig feed.

Feeding food waste to pigs was outlawed in the UK after the foot and
mouth crisis of 2001

Campaigners also want a change to European law to allow food leftovers
to be fed to pigs, backed by the introduction of a robust legal
framework for its safe processing and use to avoid spreading animal
diseases.

Using waste from catering and homes as pig "swill" was banned in the
UK in 2001 in the wake of the foot and mouth crisis due to concerns
the disease originated on a farm illegally feeding pigs unprocessed
restaurant waste. The ban was then extended across Europe...

...But a spokeswoman for the Environment Department said: "Feeding
farm animals catering waste, kitchen scraps or meat is prohibited to
prevent introduction and spread of diseases, such as foot and mouth,
swine fever and avian flu."

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Pat Gardiner
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