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richard wrote:
By the way feeding household waste to pigs is now illegal!
AFAIR (last time I checked was a couple of years ago), it's only illegal if you want to sell the meat or allow people outside your immediate family to eat it. However, Tom said "allotment waste" and there's no issue with feeding that to pigs that I'm aware of. It's only once they've been taken into a food prep area that there's a problem because of the perceived risk of contamination. I *think*, though I'm not certain, that if you have a completely separate prep area for uncooked veg then it's ok to feed waste from that to pigs. <saddle up hobby-horse> Of course, much of the DEFRA/Food Standards documentation says "thou shalt do *this*" when that's not actually true. It may be "practically correct" as far as industrial-scale farming is concerned and quite possibly also the understanding of the people who work in those organisations, but not actually the letter of the law. The bee-keeping association I'm a member of had an instance recently where the local Food Standards department obtained a list of all members and wrote to us threatening sorts of trouble if we didn't register for this and comply with that when in fact there's a specific exemption in the law for small-scale producers. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html