It's a shame that people are bullied into not being able to use their own common sense. I understand that some people have fed livestock with contaminated feed which had animal product in it. This has now been recognised as bad practise. The no contact with kitchen waste implies that we should not feed animals to our animals, or parts thereof. However, when I have been visited by DEFRA, the advice the guy gave me was to keep your veg preparation away from meat preparation( good practise anyway) and have a seperate boiling pot for your pig feed, ie a ruddy great pan that you just use for boiling up spuds etc for your pigs. he was quite happy to turn a blind eye to it being boiled in the kitchen, as long as you understood the meat/veg separation.
I have also heard on the grapevine that they are going to start allowing animal protiens back into commercial animal feeds, under strict guidelines. We as a nation are very anal about adhereing to red tape. big corperations seem to have ways of challenging this. our continental neighbours seem to use common sense to which eec regs they want to stick to.Use the guidelines and also your common sense.
I am lucky enough to have two sinks in the kitchen on seperate worktops. veg only on one. all the rest on the other. And a huge slab of wood that lives in the garage and comes out for butchery.
a little bit of potato peel unboiled , but not having been in contact with meat, now and again should not cause the downfall of europes agriculture. good healthy food for good healthy animals.
feeding animals on the rendered down remains of cheap, imported fast food meats, from global companies, however, is what should be stipulated as the major threat.
