• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is how we got BSE/CJD in the UK, i.e. mad cow disease. Prions are really scary, if the moral weight of feeding animals their own species wasn’t already a good enough reason not to do it.

    Honestly, I don’t know enough about pig behaviour to properly judge the practice. Maybe they’re happy to eat dead pigs, some animals practice… necrophagy, or whatever. But it’s not a great idea in livestock.