Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste War 02 "Pig Farmers' Civil War: high risk of raising pigs and lagging behind vs Kitchen wastes can be classified in detail except for high temperature cooking.

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"Series foreword": African classical swine fever prevention ignites the "civil war" of domestic pig raising industry. Because food waste is one of the ways of transmission of the disease, the pig industry has a high degree of disagreement on whether to ban food waste raising pigs and the prospect of industrial development. This article is the second of series 4. Please click here to read other articles.

Pig Youth Alliance: banning food waste for epidemic prevention in the short term and eliminating outdated practices in the long term

The issue of "raising pigs with food leftovers" became a heated issue, as the central government launched feed subsidies and animal husbandry subsidies since December 24 last year. Subsequently, Yunlin County (December 25, 107), Jinmen County (January 10, 108) and Hualien County (January 10, 108) also banned all pig farms under their jurisdiction from using food leftovers to feed, and the war between feed farmers and leftover pig farmers began.

The Council of Agriculture held an expert meeting and believed that as long as the food waste was cooked at high temperature, it could avoid the worry about the spread of the epidemic. However, most pig farmers who raised white pigs on feed were not at ease about this answer. The "Taiwan Pig Youth Alliance", through social networks and joint signatures, demanded that attention be paid to the rights and interests of 88% of pig farmers who feed pigs, and that there must be a total ban on kitchen leftovers in order to protect Taiwanese pigs.

Kuo Chia-Yu, chairman of the Taiwan Pig Youth Federation, said that banning food waste in the short term is to meet the needs of epidemic prevention, while the long-distance is to promote the transformation of the animal husbandry industry. He explains that although there is no risk of infection of cooked food waste, "there are doubts that when operators pick up food waste and then go home to cook it, they may accidentally get raw food waste on their bodies and hands and feet, which will indirectly lead to the source of infection."

The meat exchange rate of improved black pigs is better than that of local black pigs, and most of the operators are fed with feed. (photo courtesy of / Zheng Yusong)

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