Japan is turning uneaten food scraps back into edible food

DNYUZ ^ | August 20, 2024 | Staff

[ansel12]

A lot of people don’t realize that massive amounts of institutional food waste is fed to pigs.

[Reno89519]

Isn’t this why we have pigs, to create an an ending supply of bacon?

[Bubba_Leroy]

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.

[al baby]

we call it tomorrows lunch

[rlmorel]

Communist China has allowed this for...forever.

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[Scarlett156]

Exactly. Thank you for your wisdom, Leroy.

[desertsolitaire]

I thought I had read previously that Japan (and maybe China too) use human waste (manure) as fertilizer? I wonder if that is out of date or ongoing?

[mikey_hates_everything]

What’s new about that? Here it’s called “chicken nuggets”.

[Dr. Sivana]

A lot of people don’t realize that massive amounts of institutional food waste is fed to pigs.

I used to go in the back section of the Fry's (Kroger) bakery. They had a nice chart of what can be done with expired food. A lot of it will go to livestock.

A day old bread store had whole carts of bread labeled for agriculture only. I imagine that if a human tyrned it into stuffing or chicken coating it wouldn't be the end of the world.

[AZJeep]

Nothing new here!
Feeding scraps to pigs has been done since people started raising pigs. About 8500 to 8000 years ago!

[servo1969]

Isn’t that what livestock hogs have always done? Hell, if you aren’t careful they might turn you into food!

[iluvschnitzle]

In the US, this pig food has a technical term: slop.

[circlecity]

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.

[Iceclimber58]

My Grandfather was born in 1878. When I was 10 years old he still was farming.
He called this slop the pigs.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Years ago, I was working near Milford, Utah. One evening I came in late and the only place open was the Chinese restaurant by the train station. The menu had various types of chow mein, including shrimp, chicken, pork, and beef. I ordered shrimp, and what I got had shrimp in it, also chicken, pork, and beef. They had apparently scraped out the remainders of all of them to make a serving. It was really good, though.

[FLT-bird]

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.

[FamiliarFace]

Exactly.

[Retain Mike]

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