Food Chain Radio Show #1200

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

Grassfed Pasture Raised Pigs

This Poll is closed

Which do you think is most expensive: $4 per pound pork grown in a CAFO or $15 per pound pork grown on pasture?

$15 Pasture Pork

$4 CAFO Pork

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25%

75%

Guests: Jack and Sarah Kimmich, California Kurobuta Pasture Pork

Pork, that other white meat, feeds more humans throughout the world than any other animal.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – The Most Equal Pigs – Grassfed Pasture Pigs

One reason pigs feed so many people is that people have figured out to grow and process them on an industrial scale in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.

In a CAFO, as many as 150,000 pigs a year may be confined in metal cages so small the pigs can’t turn around, and so spend their life facing in one direction. The cages are suspended above waste pits ventilated with electric fans that push the ammonia and hydrogen sulfide gases out into the neighborhood.

To prevent infections, the pigs are fed a daily regime of antibiotics to keep them alive for six months, at which time they are processed into food.

Now, I am not here to disparage a technology that produces 97% of the nation’s pork, but I am here to re-introduce a way of growing pigs that might just be more equal and appetizing! And, so we ask…

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Tune in here, for the syndicated the Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1200 September 7, 2019 Saturday 9AM Pacific

Nationally syndicated Food Chain Radio airs live Saturday mornings 9-10AM Pacific.