[Berkshire Boy]

Just been reading the Pig site newsletter and scientists are looking into a new sustainable ingredient for pig feed. It is Defatted micralgal biomass, it is a by product from biofuel production. Doesn't it sound just yummy, I wonder how big they will print that on the pork labels in the supermarkets.

[Marches Farmer]

Sounds slightly better than the spray-dried porcine plasma (blood from the abattoirs to you and me) that they've been putting in pig feed in the US which, as I understand it, may have spread Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus through the national herd and helped lead to 7 million pigs dying!

[HappyHippy]

When will they learn 

It's amazing though, what exactly some of these terribly ambiguous names on label actually are ! Currently most people who use mass produced lip balm are smearing 'waste' from petroleum production over their lips......

I suppose 'defatted micralgal biomass' could be veggie oil that's had all the fat and 'useful' (in terms of biomass) stuff taken out........similar to veggie matter    But I suspect it'll end up being like the corn syrup which is being fed to fattening cattle in the US, great for bulking them up, so long as you don't mind the stomach ulcers which would eventually kill the animals if they weren't being slaughtered for human consumption. 

"You are what you eat" - applies to humans and animals........I'll maybe stick to my grass reared pork