[/floatr]Pig Progress: Japanese pigs raised on recycled food-based feed
Retail giant, Aeon Co, has announced that they will begin selling pork from pigs raised on feed made by recycling unsold vegetables and other foods. Starting in June, the firm will sell the pork at a total of 55 Jusco and Maxvalu outlets in Tokyo and four nearby prefectures in the Kanto eastern Japan region. The meat will be priced at about 130 yen per 100 grams, roughly the same as prices of domestic pork available at present...Initially, Aeon will collect unsold foods from 25 outlets in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, in cooperation with a recycling company in the prefecture...The company is aiming to raise the proportion of recycled foods to 45 pct by fiscal 2012 from 32.6 pct in fiscal 2007. Japanese retailers are required to achieve a food recycling rate of 45 pct or higher by fiscal 2012 under the revised food recycling law that took effect last December. Costs for recycling waste foods are twice as much as those for incinerating them at present...more...
This was already reported by Jiji Press on Friday but the incentive to post today is greatly increased by the opportunity to link to a website called "Pig Progress - Your Portal on Global Pig Production". Perhaps a first for these forums.
