Human Interest

The business insider deems this practice to be "putting an innovative spin on food recycling."

Would you agree with that? Is feeding food waste from all you can eat Las Vegas casino buffets to local pigs the sustainable answer?

There's a definitive connection between the buffet consumers, their food waste and the pigs who eat this waste. Here's a couple of thoughts:

1) How are the buffet diners and pigs similar?
2) What exactly are the pigs eating? Are there any moral or health implications?
3) Could these pigs return to the buffet as a main course? Why not?


Here's a youtube link to the full episode from Bizarre Foods America, it covers the whole behind the scenes story to food and culinary arts in Las Vegas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_DizQZdQkw


Here's a link to a short documentary film that has been made about this subject, Buffet: All You Can Eat Las Vegas. WATCH THE TRAILER!

http://www.buffetmovie.com 

PepsiCo (which owns Tropicana Orange Juice) measures the amount of carbon emissions it takes to create a half-gallon of orange juice.

Check out this article!