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.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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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.
OP, please cross-post this to all the big news communities on lemmy. In the vegan bubble it wont have much of an effect.
I'm actually a meat eater browsing all communities by Active and came across this so it's getting some outreach.
This is definitely going to make me buy more morning star bacon (ex girlfriend got me into it) and avoid bacon at restaurants.
EDIT: I was mistaken. It was cross posted to videos and that's what made it onto Active
While I appreciate you doing literally anything, it's not just pigs treated this way. The whole meat and dairy industry is full of shitty and inhumane practices.
Im curious how conservatives will defend this.
that’s so sad. is this how they get the microplastics in?
Gotta make sure you have a generation ready to die of cancers over the next 40 years to drive pharmaceutical company profits somehow.
Dude, just fuck people
Can we assume all animal feed has similar regulations?
Oh yeah, pet food is fucked up to all hell in the same way too.
One of the happy side effects of feeding the dogs I rescued a vegan diet (they're fine BTW, healthy as) is that their food is just food. I can eat it, no weird inferior ingredients etc. It wouldn't be healthy for me long term since I'm not a dog but I'm not feeding them ash and plastic which is in most pet feed.