Kitchen waste disposal: it is forbidden to feed food waste to pigs. Why can't kitchen waste be fed to pigs?

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In order to prevent African classical swine fever, food waste has become a domestic epidemic prevention battlefield, and even triggered a civil war between feed raising white pigs and food leftovers raising black pigs. Due to the way black pigs are raised and long-term historical factors, food waste is the main source of food. The strict ban on food waste issued by the government has had a direct impact on the black pig industry. Apart from downstream pig farms, even upstream sows and black piglets have also been hit.

Huang Guorong, director of agriculture in Pingtung County, Pingtung, called on the government to speed up species conservation and develop feed suitable for black pigs, and epidemic prevention should not focus only on food leftovers. Non-food waste feed ingredients such as meat and bone meal should also be paid attention to at the same time in order to fully implement epidemic prevention.

Piglets are also hit (Photo Source / Xie Xuzhong)

Huang Guorong: feed sources other than kitchen waste also need to be paid attention to at the same time.

With regard to the epidemic prevention campaign against classical swine fever in Africa, Huang Guorong stressed that raising pigs with food waste is the focus of epidemic prevention, and it is also a possible route of transmission of the virus that must be taken seriously, but in fact, 88% of the feed used by pig farmers also need to be paid attention to at the same time.

He further explained that in addition to corn and soybeans, the additives and raw materials of pig feed also contain animal protein, meat and bone meal, and pig blood meal to supplement protein and serve as a source of nutrition for pigs. "these must also be tested and prevented." Otherwise, while paying attention to raising pigs with food waste, it may cause the slackness of feed farmers and pigs, resulting in greater loopholes in the epidemic.

He mentioned that the African classical swine fever virus gene was detected in the two batches of pig blood protein powder scheduled to be exported by China's Tianjin Enbi company a few days ago. "No matter whether China may or may not be sold through a third place, from the point of view of epidemic prevention, all feed must be prevented and guarded."

As the current domestic pig feed is only for heavy metal testing, Huang Guorong bluntly said that the intensity is not enough. He believes that reference can be made to the gatekeeper measures for cattle feed. In order to avoid the spread of mad cow disease, animal protein cannot appear in cattle feed, so the official border inspection and feed factory inspection are very strict. He suggested that at this stage, epidemic prevention should also strengthen the inspection intensity of pig feed in raw materials and feed factories.

"this is not to say that animal protein cannot be added to pig feed, or that we should ban it. This is not a good way to deal with it. I think we should take good care of the raw materials and additives. We should aim at all the added animal protein, meat and bone meal, pig blood meal, etc., and increase the related projects of African classical swine fever virus." only in this way can we ensure that the source of feed used by 88% of feed farmers is safe. It is also a truly comprehensive epidemic prevention campaign.

At the same time, he also warned that biosafety and epidemic prevention on pastures is also very important. in addition to the usual disinfection process, idle people should also be prohibited from entering and leaving the pastures during this period, and access control should be stricter than in the past. Disinfection around the pasture should also increase the density of disinfection.

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