Support amongst UK pig farmers and agricultural stakeholders for the use of food losses in animal feed.

ABSTRACT: While food losses (foods which were intended for human consumption, but which ultimately are not directly eaten by people) have been included in animal feed for millennia, the practice is all but banned in the European Union. Amid recent calls to promote a circular economy, we conducted a survey of pig farmers (n = 82) and other agricultural stakeholders (n = 81) at a UK agricultural trade fair on their attitudes toward the use of food losses in pig feed, and the potential relegalisation of swill (the use of cooked food losses as feed). While most respondents found the use of feeds containing animal by-products or with the potential for intra-species recycling (i.e. pigs eating pork products) to be less acceptable than feeds without, we found strong support (>75%) for the relegalisation of

SUBMITTER: Zu Ermgassen EKHJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916861 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature