This Is Disgusting!!!

[Staceyy]

But I guess its no different than how we Americans eat. Still, how will this affect the quality of our meats and will it affect the carb counts of meats?

Money News: - With corn prices rising, pigs switch to fatty snacks - AOL Money & Finance (http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/with-corn-prices-rising-pigs-switch-to/n20070521103709990001)

[poodlebone]

But I guess its no different than how we Americans eat. Still, how will this affect the quality of our meats and will it affect the carb counts of meats?

Money News: - With corn prices rising, pigs switch to fatty snacks - AOL Money & Finance (http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/with-corn-prices-rising-pigs-switch-to/n20070521103709990001)

That really is bizarre. It shouldn't affect the carbs in actual meat, though. Just because the animals are carb loading doesn't mean they turn into carbs themselves. I'm sure it must affect the taste of the meat, though. I don't eat a whole lot of meat and when I do it's usually chicken or turkey. I wish organic meat was affordable because then I'd eat more of it, and a wider variety.

[nneighbour]

It just seems like pork will be fattier. Some of that food doesn't seem like a problem, like feeding them uncooked fries, which is just cut potatoes. But you gotta wonder the consequences of feeding pigs a steady diet of candy bars. But this isn't new. Ben and Jerry's has been giving it's waste to pig farms for years.

But quite frankly, I'd rather have the pigs eating candy than eating cake (the high-protein concentrate that moved mad-cow into the cow population).

[HelenM]

As already said it won't put carbs into the meat but it might affect the fat. Having said that industrially farmed pigs today are much leaner than pigs used to be or indeed pigs from less intensive farming methods.

I am concerned though about how meat is reared and what animals are fed. It was poor feeding practice that led to the BSE problem in the UK. During the recent incident of avian flu,there was TV coverage of the conditions in a large turkey farm which didn't add to my confidence in the industry.

I do have a genuine choice.The butchers and even supermarkets sell meat from named local producers, with age of animal date and place of slaughter etc (I'm sure they could tell you the animals name if you asked.) The trouble is it costs a lot more than mass produced meat.Given the surprisng number and size of butchers shops in the town its a price many people seem prepared to pay. Its an area of arable and poultry farming and low incomes so perhaps they know best.

I haven't totally changed my buying habits yet but I'm definitely moving towards buying less but higher quality, the only problem is to convince my husband.

[Tucker]

Get a hunting liscence. ;)

[Cyborg]

Plenty of wild bore down here...