• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    Pigs will eat anything, including each other and humans, if given the chance. Still shouldn’t be helping them in this endeavour

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      The title of this article is actually underselling it. They specifically give them disease-infected piglets and their feces

      Employees can be seen removing the intestines of dead, disease-infected piglets and mixing them with piglet feces in a blender — a mixture to be fed to the adult breeding pigs — causing one worker to gag.

      The practice, called “feedback,” is common in the pork business (or “controlled oral exposure” in industry jargon). The slurry of pig poop and parts is often fed to new female breeding pigs

      https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines

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        Stuff like that usually is worsened by captivity, but the title of this article is actually underselling it. They specifically give them disease-infected piglets and their feces

        Employees can be seen removing the intestines of dead, disease-infected piglets and mixing them with piglet feces in a blender — a mixture to be fed to the adult breeding pigs — causing one worker to gag.

        The practice, called “feedback,” is common in the pork business (or “controlled oral exposure” in industry jargon). The slurry of pig poop and parts is often fed to new female breeding pigs

        https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines

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      I know some people who were gang bangers back in the crack epidemic and the race wars between Latinos and blacks. One of the guys in their gang seemingly left the street life behind to become a pig farmer. In reality he was giving his gang brothers a place to dispose of corpses.