LOL! That makes no sense. It was eradicated in the US in 1959...so in the same year, Missouri wrote a statute changing the definition of 'garbage'?
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Anyway, I had to look up 'vesicular exanthema '.
From Wiki:
It was eventually stamped out in 1956 by a major slaughter policy combined with a ban on feeding uncooked garbage to pigs.
So the US ban is uncooked garbage, not vegetables, period.
Sorry. I still don't consider vegetables 'toxic waste'. IMHO, the farmers of Missouri are getting screwed out of their cash because the State is forcing them to spend their hard earned money to unnecessarily purchase 'approved' feed for their livestock.
Let them follow the ban, boil the veggies and feed the dang pigs!
I’ve raised and fed out over 250,000 pigs, so I know a little what I’m talking about.
We fed a lot of ‘unusual’ feeds, from gummy worms and snickers bars to steep water left over from the making of corn based sweeteners. Everything was scientifically sound, and safe.
When farmers have tens, or hundreds of millions invested in production facilities and livestock, they don’t want some little cheapskate getting front page news because he cut corners and released a bunch of dangerous food on the trusting public. We paid for the track record of safe foods out of our own pockets.
Unfair? Maybe, but all he has to do is get bigger, have his entire livelihood on the line, and then others in power will begin to take him seriously.
And by then he’ll realize what nonsense this idea of his is.
Hey, I’m a libertarian, but I hate to spoil your party. Sometimes the experts do know that they are talking about. It could well be that this is simply a sound policy that pervents epidemics whose current temporary absence is one of the miracles of modern life that we all-too-easily take for granted.
One of the traits of CONSERVATIVES is that we not inclined to monkey around with things that we do not fully understand.
The couple who were “shocked” to learn that it is illegal to sell vetables to commercial swine, may have been spared the ordeal of knowing they were responsible for a minor epidemic.
OTOH, this law, like a great many others, may have been an over reaction, using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, and destroying the kitchen table and the china along with it. I don’t know, and I suspect you don’t either. I do know that needless suffering, disease and anxiety has been caused by ignorance and misinformation about childhool vaccinations, misinformation that was spread either by ignorance, or actual malice.