I think it's a federal law that you can't feed unccoked garbage to hogs. It was to stop the spread of Trichinosis.
If you watch the Dirty Job's episode about the guy in Las Vegas, they dump all the scraps into a big cooker, it's steaming when they dump it back into the truck to feed it to the hogs.
With that being said, there is a definition of garbage. If I remember right, bread and chips and candy that comes from manufacturers ready to eat aren't considered garbage. If you have to cook it for people to eat, like meat and gravy and stuff, you have to cook it again before you feed it to pigs.
I wouldn't base my operating plan on what I just typed, since it's from old memory...... but it's a rough guidline to start from.
I always wondered what the pork tasted like from that guy in Vegas...... I'l stick with corn & soybean meal.
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