Sweden condemns pig cannibalism
Published: 22 Jun 10 17:00 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/27392/20100622/
However, across Europe, pigs can still be legally fed with feed containing pig blood, disgusting Agriculture Minister Eskil Erlandsson, who called it "shocking."
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"It is ethically objectionable to eat one's own species," he said.
Following the mad cow disease crisis in the 1990s, meat and bone meal were banned as feed for pigs, cows and chickens. Cannibalism was cited as a reason for the spread of mad cow disease, officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
However, across Europe, pigs can now be fed entirely legally with feed containing pig blood and fat, Sveriges Radio's news bulletin Ekot reported on Tuesday.
In Sweden, Scan and other large meat producers have agreed not to use blood or animal fat in animal feed for pigs, among others. However, Scan is part-owner of Danish company Daka, which produces pig feed based on pig blood and fat.
Scan's communications director Margaretha Thorngren thinks that it is unethical if to give pigs animal feed derived from their own species and now wants to see a change.
Leo Virta, head of marketing at Daka, told Ekot that the blood and fat processing is so refined at the plant that it is something completely different than the pigs for meat and bone meal.
"Strictly speaking, one can say that there has been an industrial version of a natural raw material that becomes natural again," he said.
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If we don't respect them then we are disrepecting ourselves.
We are what we eat.
I suggest we just leave animals alone!
'This has been done for centuries because it in fact protect the pigs from disease'
The scientific basis for protecting pigs from disease by feeding them their own blood is what exactly ?
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You are feeding pig to pigs. Isn't that cannibalism?
Cannibalism would involve feeding the flesh of the pig. Here it is only a product derived from purified blood. Because of the nature of blood, it is equivalent to when a piglet sucks milk from the sow. Blood products provide similar rich nutrition and protection against infections.
This question was answered by the EU Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in September 1999, when indicated. "Recycling on animal co-product processed into basic biochemical substances as fat and proteins are recognised as an effective way of re-use valuable materials. When an animal is discomposed to these materials it is not anymore recognised as being interspecies recycling"
A few years back, another Ag Minister did not enforce EU laws about BSE (Mad Cow Disease), claiming it was all hysteria. Swedish beef was banned from EU export as a result and Swedes were left with bland assurances and potentially tainted beef. Anyone know how it is now?
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Pigs? it's not healthy to eat pigs in general, period! Let alone making pigs eat pigs.