Should swill feed be regulated in the EU?

Food waste or pig feed? It depends on how one looks at it. <em>Photo: Gbp
Food waste or pig feed? It depends on how one looks at it. Photo: Gbp
Researchers launched a plea for the re-legalisation of swill feed for pigs, in December 2015. This is remarkable, as it happened in the UK, the country where swill feed caused Foot-and-Mouth Disease, which led to a swill feed ban. What are the motives behind the plea? Pigs are history’s oldest food waste recyclers. Nine thousand years ago in Anatolia and the Mekong Valley, modern-day Turkey and China, wild pigs first raided the piles of food waste left by humans, taking their first steps towa


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