Regulate the use of food waste as feed

A remarkable news item in December 2015 about researchers launching a plea for the re-legalisation of swill feed for pigs. Remarkable, as it happened in the UK, the country where swill feed caused Foot-and-Mouth Disease leading to a swill feed ban. What are the motives behind the plea? Pigs are history’s oldest food waste recyclers. 9,000 years ago in Anatolia and the Mekong Valley, modern-day Turkey and China, wild pigs first raided the piles of food waste left by humans, taking their first