No pork for dogs

Factory-farmed hogs eat huge amounts of genetically modified corn and soybean meal … laden with chemical fertilizer and herbicide.

They’re given antibiotics and chemical dewormers. These drugs are also harmful to microbial soil fauna, earthworms, and dung beetles. And they’re used with alarming frequency to treat livestock ailments. The animals have deficient immune systems caused by crowded conditions and poor diets.

Hogs are high in polyunsaturated fat due to their poor, genetically modified meals.

One common concern about pork is the risk of trichinosis.

Trichinosis is a parasite. It can cause infection in animals and people. But there have only been 11 to 20 cases per year in Australia since 2002 because hogs aren’t fed raw anymore, their diets consist of genetically modified (GMO) corn and soybean meal.