Just go vegan. This is horrible for everyone involved.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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Honestly even if we just cut out pork....this animal is as smart as dogs and just as social and loving.
Cows are social and loving, too. And don't get me started on octopodes!
I'm far from vegetarian but I've completely stopped eating octopus. Those things are freaky smart and honestly most people/restaurants can't cook them well enough to even have a flimsy selfish justification for eating them.
I gotta respect anybody using the proper pluralization.
Like this?
That works great as an adjective. Don’t be such an octopussy.
Pigs definitely are and you shouldn't eat them, but intelligence is a weird way to judge whether a life deserves consideration.
The only pertinent question is surely if they suffer.
I agree, we should start eating dogs.
I don't have time to watch this video but... it seems like a dubious claim.
Feed on some specific farm carelessly contaminated with plastic? sure.
Feeding pigs plastic as a cost cutting measure? Non-sensical.
It doesn't take a veterinarian to deduce that feeding livestock plastic will harm your profitability.
I also didn't watch this video here but saw videos earlier where livestock was fed with expired food that supermarkets weren't able to sell in time. All kinds of products like vegetables, bread, cake, yogurt etc. were delivered to the farmers directly or to intermediate companies. In many cases the food was still in its packaging, e.g. a plastic bag around a loaf of bread. But to keep costs low everything just went into a huge shredder and was then fed to the animals. Including lots of micro (and not so micro) plastics.
So the cost cutting is not about "explicitly feeding plastics as a cheap filler" but rather "accepting to have plastics in the food in favor of lower sorting costs".
In the documentary I watched this was described a common practice all over Europe.
Fucking clown world
Thank you. The motivation for them to do this is clear, with this context. Horrible.
They're not specifically feeding them plastic only, he's showing how any waste food (old potatos, old bread, chips, etc) that comes to be processed does not have the plastic bags removed before going into a grinder to become feed.
He actually shows how it's explicitly allowed in his state regulations, likely approved due to the efforts of an agribusiness lobbyist. I suspect that any negative effects to the pigs is not enough to effect the end product/bottom line, or doesn't manifest within the timeframe of a viable animal for slaughter.
the microplastics and hormone effects will definitely show up in the meat. Plastic is already in almost everything we eat and drink but this is probably much more concentrated and unhealthy than most other sources that humans consume.
According to this post/study, there definitely is microplastic in the meat, though less than I would've thought (it's possible the meat tested was from a state that doesn't allow plastic being in the feed).
Thanks for the link, this is a massively underreported issue. Every time i remember how bad the situation is (immune system issues, infertility rates, pregnancy issues, etc) i kinda freak out until i forget about it again so i can stay sane...
this got me thinking as well.
I think the whole garbage feeding law (at least in US, where the video originated) is made to control disease transmission -- but not microplastics, which is a relatively new discovery.
Still up to the consumer to protect themselves while there's no regulation tackling this.
Capitalist innovation be like...