02-12-2008, 03:32 PM
Wow!
This is very strange, really. It has brought negative attention to agriculture, because of the vast gulf between people and the food they eat (maybe I'll do a thread there later).
If this pigs fly to Hawaii story is true, I would like someone to tell me where these thousands of pigs are unloaded from ships. That's a lot of squealin' and ****tin' -- take it from this has-been pig farmer. While Ewa Beach might (still) have abatoir capacity, I am not aware of anything approaching the type of livestock handling facility it would require for unloading, and holding up to 48 hours for slaughter, thousands of hogs weighing 200- 250 lbs each, that are consuming lots of feed and water (no, the hogs are not left without feed and water for more than two hours -- you'd know that if you ever met and listened to hundreds, much less thousands, of hungry, thirsty hogs).
The story that anybody is going to spend the kind of $ it takes to truck thousands of hogs from Canada to California and then by sea to Hawaii has a number of dots that do not connect. Did you ever hear of shrinkage? Death loss? These words are about $ and nobody in the hog business makes $ when you got the kind of shrinkage and death loss for 24 to 48 hours on the road and 7 days at sea.
btw: where are these "tourist hotels" that are "labelling the pork as locally produced."?
Urban Myth: Pigs fly.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
This is very strange, really. It has brought negative attention to agriculture, because of the vast gulf between people and the food they eat (maybe I'll do a thread there later).
If this pigs fly to Hawaii story is true, I would like someone to tell me where these thousands of pigs are unloaded from ships. That's a lot of squealin' and ****tin' -- take it from this has-been pig farmer. While Ewa Beach might (still) have abatoir capacity, I am not aware of anything approaching the type of livestock handling facility it would require for unloading, and holding up to 48 hours for slaughter, thousands of hogs weighing 200- 250 lbs each, that are consuming lots of feed and water (no, the hogs are not left without feed and water for more than two hours -- you'd know that if you ever met and listened to hundreds, much less thousands, of hungry, thirsty hogs).
The story that anybody is going to spend the kind of $ it takes to truck thousands of hogs from Canada to California and then by sea to Hawaii has a number of dots that do not connect. Did you ever hear of shrinkage? Death loss? These words are about $ and nobody in the hog business makes $ when you got the kind of shrinkage and death loss for 24 to 48 hours on the road and 7 days at sea.
btw: where are these "tourist hotels" that are "labelling the pork as locally produced."?
Urban Myth: Pigs fly.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park