Feeding Our Pigs
Kitchen Scraps
Garden/Allotment
As cereal prices increase by over double
over 2,000 UK infected farms and
since October 2020, i.e wheat was
livestock places. The cause of this was
£138/Tonne in October 2020 and is now
considered to be food waste fed to pigs,
£311/Tonne, the cost of our pig feed has
and the impact was heartbreaking to
equally increased. The company I buy my
farmers across the UK.
feed from (trade price) Sow & Weaner
It is illegal to feed any kind of kitchen
Nuts were £6.50/20Kg at the end of 2020,
waste (Domestic or commercial) to
this months order they were £9.48/20kg,
livestock. With African Swine Fever
a 46% increase. As pig keepers we are all
(ASF) getting closer and closer to the UK,
feeling the impact of the current climate,
it is not a matter of IF, but WHEN ASF
but that should not give cause to break
arrives in the UK and we all need to do
the government legislation on feeding
our part to manage the risk. As the ASF
kitchen and catering waste. Many will
virus is present in the carcass of affected
recall the Foot and Mouth outbreak in
pigs (African Swine Fever is not a human
early 2001, which lead to the slaughter of
health threat.), there is the potential that
over 6 million animals from
EU imported pork prepared in your
