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Can I feed house scraps to pigs if they won be sold or slaughtered for commercial purposes?

April 26, 2017Commercial feed House Pigs purposes scraps slaughtered sold

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Can I feed house scraps to pigs if they won be sold or slaughtered for commercial purposes?

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House scraps fall into the definition of “swill” and must never be fed to pigs. This is because the feeding of scraps is a common means of infecting pigs with the virus of foot and mouth disease and once infected, pigs are a major cause of virus spread to other species such as cattle and sheep.