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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Yep, that's how they operate. They check for appropriate documentation for certain immunizations, weigh your animal, fill out a paper for receipt of animal, etc. You can either stay and watch it auction or go home....you may get a call if they don't sell that day...highly unlikely for hogs to not sell.
Yeah, its not really considered an ethics issue in the country and its pretty accepted, unless you're a serious breeder, that a backyard pig is going to receive some slop with his feed. This is why some people HAVE pigs, to put food scraps in one end and receive manure and bacon out the other end. Its an age-old concept and, until recent years, was considered standard pig-raising procedure. Some people are trying to get away from grain feeding all together by having sufficient graze, mangle and other root crops for pigs.
If you've never been to a livestock auction, this should definitely be one of your trips this spring, as well as a trip to the processors...just to get an idea of how things are conducted. The auctions are amusing, sometimes heartbreaking and downright interesting!
Still not understanding your aversion to slop. I know it sounds like a nasty thing but its composed of anything that isn't grains. It could be left over milk from butter making, to scraps from making your salad. It could be what is left on the tray when your child is done eating at school. Why is this repugnant to you as a food source for pigs? Is it just the taste quality of your meat that concerns you and you feel cheated at the thought that you haven't eaten a completely grainfed hog? If you couldn't detect a taste difference and later found out that pig had consumed some slop, would that change your ethics? Or do you feel that I am in some way trying to deceive the general public by supplementing grain with slop? Still not understanding why this is a morality issue....
Is it because you have been eating pork for a while now and it just came to your notice that they might have not all been grainfed and this makes you angry?
Trying to understand why this would be a morals issue with you. I don't know if you were raised in the city or not in close proximity with livestock and the raising of such, but its pretty standard operating procedure here in the country and not considered a morals issue.
Yeah, its not really considered an ethics issue in the country and its pretty accepted, unless you're a serious breeder, that a backyard pig is going to receive some slop with his feed. This is why some people HAVE pigs, to put food scraps in one end and receive manure and bacon out the other end. Its an age-old concept and, until recent years, was considered standard pig-raising procedure. Some people are trying to get away from grain feeding all together by having sufficient graze, mangle and other root crops for pigs.
If you've never been to a livestock auction, this should definitely be one of your trips this spring, as well as a trip to the processors...just to get an idea of how things are conducted. The auctions are amusing, sometimes heartbreaking and downright interesting!
Still not understanding your aversion to slop. I know it sounds like a nasty thing but its composed of anything that isn't grains. It could be left over milk from butter making, to scraps from making your salad. It could be what is left on the tray when your child is done eating at school. Why is this repugnant to you as a food source for pigs? Is it just the taste quality of your meat that concerns you and you feel cheated at the thought that you haven't eaten a completely grainfed hog? If you couldn't detect a taste difference and later found out that pig had consumed some slop, would that change your ethics? Or do you feel that I am in some way trying to deceive the general public by supplementing grain with slop? Still not understanding why this is a morality issue....
Is it because you have been eating pork for a while now and it just came to your notice that they might have not all been grainfed and this makes you angry?
Trying to understand why this would be a morals issue with you. I don't know if you were raised in the city or not in close proximity with livestock and the raising of such, but its pretty standard operating procedure here in the country and not considered a morals issue.
