>I once ran a large dinig hall at a pretigious private college in
>northwestern Massachusetts.  All the leftover food from students' plates
was
>scraped into large trash cans and a local pig farmer picked it up daily.
>
>Every time pork was served, I got a really uncomfortable feeling thinking
>about eating it AND, thinking about the pigs eating the leftovers, lol.
>Come to think of it, it was while I was working there that I went
>vegetarian.


Interesting.  One of the features on TV this week mentioned that the first
pigs in the UK to develop Hoof and Mouth Disease (currently causing a major
quarantine and seriously damaging the economy over there) were regularly fed
swill from a local elementary school's cafeteria.  Bet they didn't dispose
of pork-based scraps separately, so the pigs wouldn't be eating other pigs.

Geez, considering the garbage that is fed to school children in order to
save money, I wonder if the pigs got sick from eating actual SPAM?  Wouldn't
that be the ultimate irony.  People don't seem to learn, most species of
food animals cannot stay healthy if fed their own species.

laurie (Mother Mastiff) wondering what kind of problems are lurking in local
pig farms....