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Buy A Pig. Save A Farmer

There is a relatively simple solution to the excess of pigs on America's farms: Organized, nation-wide pig roasts in truckloads of 200-plus pigs. Instead of sending pigs to a packing plant, they are sent to a designated site in each Congressional District. Sufficiently advertised, a pigroast could be organized every four days.

A few thoughts:

  1. Individuals have been slaughtering and roasting pigs for thousands of years.
  2. Roasting reduces the need for trained butchers inasmuch as a roasted pig falls apart off the bone.
  3. Basically, pig and transportation, the cost would be about $1/pound for a 250 pound porky.
  4. A group of 100-200 persons (church, teachers, student [high schoolers], social club, etc.) would buy a shipment via PayPal payment. A city council member could poll constituents to create a group of 200-250.
  5. A concrete block company would sell via Products for Lifehours the blocks for pits (with advertisement option). It is important that the pits be standardized with long-lasting construction. Concrete pits are simple and durable.
  6. The highschoolers would be hired (via lifehour credits) to construct the pits. The related municipality would provide backholes for digging the pits.
  7. Each pit-user would be required to clean up the pit for the next user.
  8. Slaughterers can advertise on Craigslist under "Pig Slaughter," e.g., butchers or hunters (with field dressing experience).
  9. Pit users are responsible for providing the charcoal or wood for the roasting.
  10. Irony: Iowa and other pork producers have farmers near towns and cities where shipments of pigs could be roasted instead of euthanized.
  11. Fully implemented, this program could process 100,000 pigs each week.

The National Pork Producers Council
"the global voice for the U.S. pork industry"
Create a website/websegment that addresses the following issues with videos and instructions.
  1. Building a pit.
  2. Slaughtering a pig (Persons with butcher experience, e.g., hunter who field dress kills, can list themselves on Craigslist). Biology teachers who dissect frogs would be good butchers.
  3. Safety precautions
  4. State council designates one person for each Congressional District to oversee the process.

Farm Bureau in District
  1. Issue a press release supporting "Buy a pig, save a farmer."
  2. Find permanent site(s) for 250 concrete pits at a high school or college for 200+ 20ftx20ft pits. Best location would be abandoned high school football fields which have adjacent parking and plumbing/toilet facilities.
  3. Contact a concrete block company
  4. Contact a trucking firm with refrigeration units for chilling the carcasses (if needed)
  5. Contact the FDA to provide a representative to oversee health safety. Representative to be paid time and a half via lifehours.
  6. Find a renderer/remainderer for entrails.
  7. If you are a farmer, in any regard, you should enjoin your Representative to act.
  8. First group in each Congressional District will receive lifehour credits for their expenditures, about $250 per pig-buying group or $50,000 to $60,000 paid to farmer via PayPal (200x$250).

I support the "Buy a Pig, Save a Farmer" program
and hope it will be applied to other farm produce
that would otherwise be wasted.