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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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[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Legal limit doesn't mean you should do that. It means you must discard/waste the feed if it is violated.

Limits aren't guidelines.

Edit: a more sane policy for protecting consumers would limit the amount of plastic in meat. The nutritional value is 0 anyway.

[–] amzd@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That limit is there for a reason. They found it acceptable to feed animals 0.15% plastic.

I personally think no plastic in food is acceptable.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At this point, there will always be plastic in food whether put there intentionally or not. There's probably plastic in the water we use to water our gardens.

[–] amzd@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

You’re talking about micro plastics but that doesn’t add up to 40grams per day

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So if a bag of a ton of feed were to rip you should be legally obligated to discard the feed? This seems excessively wasteful.

There are also limits on rodent poop in e.g. grains for this reason. Doesn't mean anybody puts poop in bread.

[–] amzd@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

That argument is nonsense as people are intentionally putting plastic in feed as shown in the post you’re commenting on and in many news articles.