I feed my bacon grass!
Sometimes, I am afraid of what I am eating. Like when a “beef stick” has “mechanically separated chicken” on its list of ingredients. I wonder, “Did one get run over by a tractor, or is there an actual machine for separating chicken?”
Of course the ways that animals are raised, killed, and processed should be a concern of ours, but we should also wonder about what they ate. It seems that many animals raised in industrial meat production settings are basically fed GMO corn and other things while they live in a hard concrete setting. Many do not even make it outside.
PAPA LIKES IT SIMPLE
Far too frequently, it seems that people just go with the flow and do what others are already doing without asking why. This is also true for those raising animals for meat and the consumers who purchase it. I believe that animals were created in a specific way with specific characteristics which include their natural diet.
As we move forward on the homestead, we plan to eventually have a few pastures to raise many of our animals on, the pigs included. We plan on still feeding them some special treats to keep them coming when we call, but for the most part we hope that their diet will mostly consist of grasses and plants from the field. This will be more cost effective for us and better for the pigs. For now though, we are feeding them a mixture of wild edibles, whole corn, hog feed, garden produce, and table scraps.
At the moment I am clearing the land section by section to replace the existing forest with a food forest, so the hogs are currently being used to eat down and remove the existing growth. This video is from a little bit ago (before our piglets were born) but it gives you the basic idea about some of the ideas that we have for our pigs and our land.
PAPA-PEPPER'S PIGS
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-pigs-eating-grass
Until next time…
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