Food Scraps for Pigs in Taiwan

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Ralph Jennings, In Taiwan, Leftover Food Scraps Help Farmers Sustain Porky Appetites. Guardian, Mar 23, 2016.
http://www.theguardian.com/susta ... cycling-environment

Quote:

"About two thirds of the island nation's overall food waste, which totaled 610,000 tons last year, goes to help feed the country's 5.5m pigs * * * which makes up about half of all of the meat eaten in Taiwan

"more than 80% of the soybeans grown globally are used for animal fodder.

"Japan, for example, diverts 35% of its food waste to pig farms, preserving some of the leftovers by cooking them at high temperatures and adding lactobacillus, a bacteria used in the production of yogurt.

"The UK * * * prohibited the use of animal parts in livestock feed in 1996 after the emergence of mad cow disease * * * Similarly, after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs, the European Union prohibited the use of all food waste except for certain byproducts of food production * * *  The US has no federal law regulating feeding scraps to pigs, but 22 states have banned the practice.

Note:
(a) Taiwan is an epidemic area of foot and mouth disease (which does not spread to humans) 口蹄疫疫區, and thus other nations bar it from exporting pork (to those nations).
(b) "as troublesome as the government-produced slop might be, pig farmers who buy it can save about 30% over the cost of commercially produced pig feed."

slop (n): "food waste (as garbage) fed to animals"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slop
(c) "Chang Sheng-chin 張生金, the secretary general 秘書長 of Swine ROC 中華民國養豬協會, Taiwan's association of pig farmers"