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TikToker Exposes Truth Behind 'Garbage Feeding' - pigs in dozens of states are legally fed plastic garbage, ground up and added to their feed (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by stabby_cicada to c/vegan

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Crazy how people will refuse to drink from plastic water bottles from fear of BPAs and microplastics but will happily eat the dead flesh of an animal that gorged on plastics for years. Our risk analysis is as broken as our morality.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That video is crazy, glad he shared that. I had no idea pigs were eating plastic. I mean not in quantities like that, I assumed some plastic got in there like everywhere else. I am curious how plastics are on the approved list of pig feed though, that is bizarre. I wonder if it refers only two. The small amounts I was imagining since the states have those laws against including food wrappers.

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am curious how plastics are on the approved list of pig feed though, that is bizarre

It's not really that strange - these laws and regulations are bought by the industry with mega bucks that citizen movements can't compare to. It's just ~~corruption~~ lobbying. It's perfectly legal for them to just pay the people making the rules because we decided corporations are people too. The agriculture industry gets away with a ton of bullshit through these means all over the place.

It saves them a lot of money to feed pigs trash. So they buy some wiggle room on the regulations, make a half assed attempt at cleaning it, pay people to say it's negligible or come up with some reason why it's okay, pay some more people to green wash it as "well it saves food waste!", then just have at it. The amount of money they'd spend to feed them real food far outweighs the cost of lobbying and misinformation campaigns.