Hogwash to raise pigs

Qianmeigou Village, Dongshe Street, Wanbelin District, the provincial capital, is located in the west of the river, and in Taiyuan dialect, it means a remote place. It is in such a remote area that the pig industry has sprung up in the village. According to the reporter's understanding, when the pig house was first built, some villagers engaged in raising pigs one after another. On the evening of October 21, the reporter conducted an undercover visit on the spot.

With the open door, two large chained dogs were chained to the simple iron door and the pigsty respectively. A smell of smoky pig dung was diffused in the moist air after the rain. The reporter came forward to see that the five pigs of Baihuahua were resting in the first column of the pig house.

Through the introduction of insiders, the reporter soon learned that the scale of this pigsty is not the largest in the village, about 100 pigs in captivity. The reporter observed that the small motor tricycle that usually collects hogwash in various restaurants in the streets and alleys is parked next to the pigsty.

The hogwash pigs raised in this place are shocking. At the scene, more than a dozen pig farms are littered with rubbish, which exudes a pungent sour smell and makes people feel suffocated. The reporter counted that each pig farm has dozens of pigs, next to the pigsty is a variety of processing swill cauldrons and tools, some pots also store a large number of restaurant hogwash.

It is understood that most of the people who rent houses and raise pigs here are locals, and they have been raising pigs here for several years. Every night, they drive tricycles to pull swill in the urban area, and the hogwash is boiled in a cauldron and fed to pigs, and the flow direction of these hogs raised by hogwash is worrying.

Insiders engaged in the catering industry revealed: now, on the one hand, there is no formal channel to deal with hogwash in the provincial catering industry; on the other hand, the catering industry can make money by selling hogwash to pig farmers, and pig farmers can also make huge profits by raising pigs with hogwash, so such an interest chain can be formed.

It seems that if we want to find a way to break this chain of interests, only in this way can we fundamentally ban hogs.

In a pig farm in the village, the reporter won the trust of the farmer in the name of promoting cheap pig feed. A woman with a suburban accent told the reporter very clearly that her pig had grown up and there was no need to feed it. Now it is basically fed with hogwash. When the reporter said that the feed promoted was very cheap, the woman doubted: "definitely not cheaper than swill, is it?" A person familiar with the situation calculated an account for the reporter: it takes about 100 days for a pig to get out of the ring, and the feed costs about 7 yuan a day, while feeding swill can reduce the cost by about 2 yuan.

Under the repeated questioning of the reporter, the woman said mysteriously that they usually go to a restaurant in the city in the early hours of every day to pull swill. And the two sides have an old relationship. "the restaurant will keep it a secret and basically can't find us." The pig farm is next to a smelly ditch, and the smell of hogwash and the smell of the ditch is disgusting.

While talking to the reporter, the woman kept fishing something from the swill pot with a simple spoon. The reporter noticed that there were many black garbage bags and some white plastic boxes of boxed lunch scattered next to the swill pot. When asked why the swill was heated, the woman unexpectedly said brazenly that it was to prevent the pig from eating the hogwash.

When the hogwash pig comes out of the pen, who will buy it? No matter how the reporter inquired, people from several pig farms only said that there would be door-to-door purchases by pig traders at that time.

Hogwash pig farming is not the same as some small farming workshops that feed leftovers, let alone the simple family feeding in rural areas. Hogwash pig farming has formed a large scale around the major cities. You know, hogwash is generally stored in restaurants waiting for people to buy it at night.

Hogwash was pulled to the pig farm, during which at least a day, a lot of swill in the transport began to mildew, smelly.

Experts pointed out that because hogwash contains a lot of foreign bodies, it is no longer a simple hogwash, so it will contain heavy metal elements such as lead and mercury, which will remain in pigs after long-term feeding.

The reporter consulted the data and learned that according to the current "Animal Quarantine Management measures," quarantine live pigs should be examined alive, urine samples sampled, ear labels checked, breeding files, and so on. As long as it is confirmed that pigs are healthy and free of epidemic disease, it is necessary to issue an "Animal Quarantine qualification Certificate." However, it does not matter whether there are drug residues in pig viscera and whether there is an overdose of antibiotics.

So can the meat of swill pig be eaten? A few days ago, the reporter consulted Taiyuan City Motion Inspection Center, a person in charge said: "at present, the state allows hogwash to feed pigs, its meat after high-temperature cooking, is edible." At present, what is lacking is sound regulations. "

In fact, hogwash pigs are not completely banned in foreign countries. Europe has issued a health regulation that has been in effect since 1985, banning the use of "hogwash" to raise animals, with the exception of breeders who have a sterilized steamer with an automatic temperature recorder, which ensures that the temperature is kept at 100 ℃ within an hour, thus eliminating the harm of "hogwash".