Posted on 11/20/2022 4:29:00 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Pigs in Las Vegas are once again feeding off of casino scraps after going without during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 closed many hotels and restaurants on the strip, limiting food that was sent to nearby livestock farms. That left many farmers struggling to feed their pigs.
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about 90% of the pigs’ diet comes from casino food scraps.
Now that restaurants are back up and running, pigs are now feasting again.
"This month, on Friday, we will actually reach the number of pigs that we had pre-pandemic," farm manager Sarah Stallard told the news outlet.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox10phoenix.com ...
“Las Vegas pigs once again dining on casino scraps after COVID-19 lockdown”
Anyone who’s walked the strip with a beer has NO SYMPATHY for them.
Dang..I thought this was going to be about something else.
Btw, Adele is such a diva that she is refusing to stay at any Caesars facility and has opted for a Wynn hotel during her Vegas show
I saw a documentary on TV about this, really interesting.
Who knew there were so many Hog Farms in the Las Vegas area?
Maybe that area used to be mostly farmland before tourists and developers took hold.
At summer church camp, we saved our scraps for a local farmer who fed his pigs with them.
If they have the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, America can have the running of the pigs.
Try it in San Francisco and there’d be fighting between the pigs and the derelicts. Maybe on Netflix.
In a weird way, that food you couldn’t finish at the casino buffet will come back to you in a future breakfast as bacon.
Mike Rowe @ Dirty Jobs
In army Basic, we separated our table scraps into the edible and unedible garbage pails. Good for the local farm economy.
Dirty Jobs w/Mike Rowe.
Can’t even imagine who this head-line refers to.
They could feed the derelicts to the pigs, problem solved.
She’s a pig.
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