Crikey.....don't usually go on the pig bit of this forum.....and will go back to the sheep and stay there! I know you cannot feed 'animal waste' to pigs because it might contain meat by products....however cannot see how that applies to spare yoghurt from local dairy nor antibiotic milk from farm up the road....And I am not asking just to have my head bitten off Can someone point me to the right legislation please!
Its a bit tortuous to get through the whole lot, but start with the Animla By-products Regulations 2005, part 3 article 9 that states
Restrictions on feeding catering waste and other animal by-products
9.(1) It is an offence to contravene Article 22(1)(b) of the Community Regulation (which prohibits the feeding of farmed animals with catering waste or feed materials containing or derived from catering waste) and it is also an offence to feed such materials to any other ruminant animal, pig or bird.
(2) It is an offence to feed to any ruminant animal, pig or bird any other animal by-product (unless it has been processed in accordance with the Community Regulation) other than
(a)liquid milk or colostrum used on the farm of origin; or
(b)in accordance with Article 23(2) of the Community Regulation as applied by regulation 26(3) of these Regulations.
The community Regulation(s) referred to is EC 1774/2002, which is 95 pages long! Article 23(2) essentially allows meat to be fed to animals such as zoo and circus animals that don't go into the food chain.
Now when you start to get into what is allowed under 9(2), you need to read the whole of the processing annexes of 1774/2002 - to work things like yoghurt out !