[secuono]

Hopefully none of that food has been in your kitchen.

Why?

[robert waddell]

It is illegal to give your pigs anything that comes out of your domestic kitchen as it may have came into contact with meat and got contaminated. The rules are very strict on this. You can prepair the veg in a shed and you are OK with that. but this only applies in Britain and Europe

[secuono]

Does that apply to pet pigs over there, too?
That seems very backwards, anything to do with those mad cow type scares that went on years ago?
Also very weird since I've always heard pigs eat meat...

[deepinthewoods]

its to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease. hardly backward really.  this applies to all pigs.

[robert waddell]

to those in the EU it is certainly not backward      swill had been fed to pigs for years  and the last outbreak of F&M in Britain was traced back to a farm that used swill  to feed to the pigs   all this goes to landfill now    poultry used to get recycled poultry manure fed back to them  this practise originated in the states     they were fed very high protein content feed and they just crap the protein out them  so what better way to cut costs      Britain used to feed meat and bone meal to cattle    this i also understand is done in the states   or was common practise       two things happened in Britain   for two consecutive years we were forced to treat our cattle with organophosphate to eradicate warble fly       during the treatment period these cattle if they died were made into meat and bone meal for inclusion in there feed   at the same time the renderers went from a batch process to a continuous flow process therefore it did not reach the temp of before     and you have the bones of mad cow disease (no pun intended)    the Americans only need to look at there gulf war veterans to see the affect of organophosphate    agent orange is one of them 

[secuono]

I've never agreed with feeding herbivores meat, that is appalling. But to feed an omnivore meat, as long as it's clean and not drugged or diseased, it should be fine.

How does the Foot & Mouth disease come about? If someone feeds infected meat back, no?

I'm not arguing with you guys. I just have no idea about this stuff. I don't pay attention to such scares and the news, it's rarely anything but lies and depressing. The media likes to control people, so I just skip it and search for the real truth.

We are trying to raise our own meat and greens. I haven't fed the pigs any meat myself, as the dogs and chickens get those scraps. The rabbits eat the meadow under their feet with clean rabbit pellets. Sheep and horses eat nothing but the green under them and hay.

I don't know, I never liked those large commercial places. I really don't know how such an idea ever came to 'work', all they do is pump chemicals into them to make them live to butcher date and then feed them what ever is cheapest...it's unbelievable...

[robert waddell]

somewhere at any one time there will be an outbreak of foot and mouth   somewhere in the world        the one problem area is south America     which was supposed to be the originating source of the foot and mouth contaminated meat  that was supplied to the British army barracks near to the farm that was identified
 
Britain's animal herd is free of  foot and mouth although some would opt for an inoculation programme  if the same scenario were to reoccur       personally i have no experience of this disease although in the last outbreak a friends entire herd was taken out
no argument on my part either
 
large commercial herds of whatever  can be beneficial      you have huge feed lots/ dairy's /poultry/and swine herds     far larger than in Britain    and there is complaints in Britain when they are proposed