A lot of people don’t realize that massive amounts of institutional food waste is fed to pigs.
Isn’t this why we have pigs, to create an an ending supply of bacon?
We have been turning uneaten food scraps back into edible food for years. It is called a “compost pile.” I plow it back into our garden every year.
Communist China has allowed this for...forever.
Ping!.....................
What’s new about that? Here it’s called “chicken nuggets”.
Nothing new here!
Feeding scraps to pigs has been done since people started raising pigs. About 8500 to 8000 years ago!
Isn’t that what livestock hogs have always done? Hell, if you aren’t careful they might turn you into food!
In the US, this pig food has a technical term: slop.
There is a story that Chinese restaurants in early San Francisco would take their leftover ingredients at the end of the night and mixed them together into a entree they would sell for cheap. They called it Chop Suey. It ultimately became the most popular item on the menu.
My Grandfather was born in 1878. When I was 10 years old he still was farming.
He called this slop the pigs.
ummm....this is very far from being a new idea. People have always fed pigs the scraps and then later eaten the pig once it was good and fattened up.
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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. ;)
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.