Posted on 08/20/2024 8:47:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
I use leftovers from meals at least once a week here, and very often, twice a week. Very little goes to waste. I’m astounded by people who thinks leftovers are gross. In my house, they are turned into very tasty meals. I was raised that way, and I’m still using the techniques I learned from my parents.
This new technology is only several hundred years old.
It’s good that this is being done commercially.
That amount of food waste is appalling.
We do the same here. Pigs and chickens are amazing food recyclers....
Hard pass for me, but if it’s helping to feed them, and they’re willing, go for it Japan!
All scraps around here go to the chickens, the compost piles or to house dogs.
The hunting dogs get no scraps but DO get the occasional Milk Bone from me. They’re already on some pretty expensive, balanced kibble. The Mule likes Milk Bones, too. ;)
Same here.
They are doing something we used to call ‘Slopping the hogs’....... I guess that’s ‘new’ to Japan.........🙄
Bottom line: They’re feeding (processed) kitchen scraps to swine, then eating the resulting pork.
This will be familiar to American farmers.
This is the exact process for making silage for cattle you take a mass of material inoculate it with acid.making bacteria and ferment it till it’s PH4 or less then it just sits there waiting to be feed.
There was a episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike went to a pig farm in the desert outside Vegas where they were trucking in food scraps from all the Vegas buffets they conveyor belt it from dump trucks to a giant pressure cooker where they heated it till 225F for a few hours the sludge that came out was then with much comedy loaded into a cart and deposited into pig feeding troughs they went nuts for it.
Also unsold produce from grocery store and edible garbage from restaurants.
We’ve been doing this for 200 years.................
I think “we” (the human species) have been doing it for a lot longer than 200 years. Medieval European peasants would surely recognize the concept ... probably swineherds for as long as swine have been herded would recognize it.
If it is good for the pig you’ll soon be eating, then skip the middle pig and feed it straight to the human.
One of “Dirty Jobs” best segments was about making pig food from Las Vegas table scraps.
Yup Mike Rowe on the skid loader was comedy gold. That and the conveyor belt of doom with all the hand picked out nasty things people put on their plates.
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