Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Danger in Municipal Pigs. [ARTICLE]

Danger in Municipal Pigs.

One method of disposing of garbage is that adopted by many municipalities of feeding It to pigs. Approximately 10 per cent of the total collection in 1909, according to reports of cities of 30.000 and over, -was handled in this manner. This may be a slight improvement over dumping it, but only for small places where the garbage can be handled before it decays." So serious a matter is this system that the state of Colorado has passed a law compelling all meat markets to state whether the pork sold by them was fed on untreated garbage. Another state board of health finds that of 1,000 hogs fed on city garbage, 33 per cent had tuberculosis. “The idea of eating garbage-fed pork is disgusting." says one mayor. The eating of it may be injurious.