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Posted on 08/25/2012 4:58:58 AM PDT by expat1000
COLUMBIA — When Eric and Joanna Reuter of Chert Hollow Farm, 12 miles north of Columbia, decided they wanted to raise and sell pigs this spring, they checked out Missouri laws on feeding.
What they discovered surprised them: It is illegal to feed vegetables to pigs if the animals are going to be sold to consumers in Missouri.
(Excerpt) Read more at columbiamissourian.com ...
I imagine you have a HUGE selection of pork recipes. :-)
And I agree about the ignorance of consumers, too.
Face it, they can't be too awfully smart, or they wouldn't have to have plastic bags printed with 'do not place over head'....right?
LOL!
The meat producers, which naturally includes pork, have a 'checkoff' system wherby a certain dollar amount is deducted from the check the farmer recieves when he sells market hogs.
That money is used for the projects I outlined.
The theory behind that was/is that if the farmer does a good job of policing his own production, the government will keep their mitts off. It's worked very well for many,many decades.
That no long is holding true.
In the end, with the 'help' of government and emotion driven stories such as this, I suspect this guy will get his way. Pork, as a result, will be a little less safe to eat, and the security of government workers a little more safe.
Eventually some disease outbreak will occur, government workers will be the only ones qualified to intervine etc. etc. We all know the drill already.
I respect your knowledge and experience, but I’m confused - how could it be harmful to feed pigs fresh vegetables?
My view is if the pigs have the cash to pay for it, they can buy anything being sold.
Long and costly history tells us that everyone has a different definition of ‘fresh vegetables’, and many of those definitions have been deadly.
The article was very unclear, perhaps intentionally so.
I don’t think anybody objects to your taking potatoes out of the ground and feeding them the pigs, as I think the law refers to table scraps only. If the article explained why the family had so many table scraps available, it sure didn’t say.
I used to live in Idaho, where there were massive potato farms. A guy established a feedlot for cattle north of town, and fed them pretty much on potatoes that had spoiled in storage. You would not believe the odor from bovine excrement produced from rotten potatoes. I wonder if there is something similar going on here.
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