[Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 16, Issue 20 consumption of wsste products by hogs

[stan simon]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen,

The use of hogs to eat food waste is time proven concept. However in this 
age of governmental micromanagement, this practice has be deemed "dangerous" 
due to the potential threat of disease transmission from humans to swine and 
back to humans.  I think there probably were  some actual instances  of 
hepatitis which became the basis to ban the practice.

However in reality no government can effectively monitor the diet of all 
pigs.  Our pigs especially liked fish meat and donuts.  Chickens and geese 
are also excellent omnivores.  This method of waste conversion is in my 
opinion deserves greater research.

To answer the question about which way would be best, you would have to set 
some variables, for example the amount of waste available, composition of 
the waste, (protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals, etc.)  to find out what it 
is going to do for your hogs.  You would probably be using the waste as a 
supplement to the hog's feed regimen. The volume of hog manure would be 
greater than the food waste stream.  So then you would have a bigger problem 
(or opportunity).

Stan L Simon, P.E.
S. L. Simon Engineering P.A.
8060 160th Av NE
Kerkhoven, MN 56252
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>   Wouldn't the best use of food waste be to feed it to pigs -- then
> harvest the meat and use the pig manure for fertilizer or else AD it?
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> Harmon,
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> Excellent answer to the food waste problem!
>
> In the world that I am working on, all people moving vehicles are electric
> or biodiesel.  The electric power is generated from solar energy stored in
> the form of tree biomass and algae.  The CO2 produced by the electric
> generation is recovered to produce more algae.  Biodiesel is extracted 
> from
> the algae and the solid residues are fermented to alcohol or digested via
> anaerobic digestion to methane.  Biodiesel, methane and alcohol provide
> vehicle fuel which removes CO2 from the recycling system.  The system
> generates mobile fuel energy by collecting and recycling CO2 in a closed
> short cycle loop using algae and sunlight.
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> Recently (in the last two months), an algae biodiesel system demonstrated 
> a
> production rate of 56,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year for a 
> trial
> run of 9 days.  I think this can be the real answer to the production of
> home grown fuels, not corn.
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> Art
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>>   Wouldn't the best use of food waste be to feed it to pigs -- then
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