Vintage Photo, Early 1900's - U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Pig Cafeteria"

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[DogByte6RER]

“The Pig Cafeteria” was an exhibit produced by the Department of Agriculture to educate farmers about new methods of farming and raising livestock — specifically, what to feed pigs so that they would be healthy and profitable.

[DogByte6RER]

What began as a pig cafeteria a century ago now only continues today as shrimp on a treadmill ...

[schm0e]

check out the menu.

[bigbob]

Don’t tell Moochelle! Even pigs will not be safe!

[Rodamala]

Once upon a time... when milk prices were not price fixed, the typical family farm would make butter or cheese from the milk as the butter fat was the real, marketable commodity. The whey (basically skim or butter milk) which was separated out, supplemented hog and chicken feed as a very nutritionally valuable feed component. Now, humans drink homogenized, Pasteurized skim milk... and butter has been replaced with god-damned toxic soybean oil... with the soybean meal left over from pressing that oil fed to the hogs. One day people will wake up and realize that they are being poisoned by Monsanto and the USDA.

[Rodamala]

Just because...

[schm0e]

perfect graphic.

[schm0e]

what began as a pig cafeteria years ago...

[Sivad]

Obviously the thread is about the oldtime photo and
not about what pigs were fed circa 1900. Having stated
that I recall my college swine production class in the
early 70s. Traditionally, the problem with pork is that
pigs were fed garbage which would infect the animal
w/the parasite trichinosis. The undercooking of pork
products exposed human consumers to the parasite.
When modern day large producers of swine began
to feed corn and other grains to their pigs and elim-
inated the garbage the problem vastly diminished.
However, because pigs will always tend to eat any-
thing they can get their snouts around it is still a good
idea to sufficiently cook the pork. Besides, unlike
a nice rare beefsteak, undercooked porkchops are
just not appealing to most of us.

[GOYAKLA]

In the pig photo, why the claw hammer and Yankee drill?

[JouleZ]

I remember buying bacon with a visible tape worm running through the slices back in the day....from Kmart. Didn’t learn what it was until I took biology 101 and was grossed out. The butchers were supposed to cut the worm out! To this day I like my bacon blackened.

[Rodamala]

I once had a obviously sheltered young waitress ask me how I wanted my porkchops... I was like, “uh? cooked?”