Posted on 04/01/2015 9:10:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
RIO RANCHO, N.M. – There’s one group of young eaters who like Michelle Obama’s school lunch program: pigs.
New Mexico’s Galloping Grace Youth Ranch is accepting fruits and vegetables thrown away by students at several elementary schools in the Rio Rancho area and collects some five tons per week.
Speaking of the pigs, goats and chickens gobbling up the students’ castaways, Wade says, “If you think about it, it’s a fresh salad bar every day. Fruits and vegetables and they love it.”
To underscore the point, he’s talking about the farm animals, not the school children.
The goats prefer romaine lettuce, some pigs like grapes while others will eat “anything.” The chickens like the dinner rolls.
Earlier this year, a New York district estimated its students throw away 85 percent of their fruits and vegetables.
Some 3,000 pigs at a Rhode Island hog farm scarf up uneaten fruits and vegetables, too.
The pigs are enjoying “half-eaten tuna sandwiches and other food scraps students discard during their lunch periods” as part of a new recycling program established by the town of Cumberland, according to WoonsocketCall.com.
Two Rhode Island districts – North Smithfield and Burrillville – that are sending their scraps to My Blue Heaven Farm. Both districts are participants in the National School Lunch Program, which is implementing the hated federal lunch rules.
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Moocheles daughters have a top notch chef at Sidwell to feed them.
Moving on up!
Bad idea, the pigs will suffer from malnutrition and the Fat-Back buys on the stock market will collapse.
Generally speaking, garbage is the wet, edible remains of foodstuffs. Trash is the non-edible, dry remains. Thus, the non-bony food remains are suitable for pig food and the rest goes to the landfill.
Hooray for the kids.
It was along time ago, but if I remember correctly, the barrel was marked “EDIBLE GARBAGE.”
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