Potty-Training Pigs Cuts Runoff From Taiwanese Farms by 80 Percent
Potty Training Pigs Taiwan wants to toilet train its six million pigs to reduce the impact of farm pollution on water supplies. USDA Large scale farming is a dirty business, but Taiwan's environmental authorities have come up with a novel way to clean up it's six-million-swine pig farming industry: a href="http://green.yahoo.com/news/afp/20110105/od_afp/taiwananimalspollutionfarmoffbeat.html">potty train the pork. The Environmental Protection Administration has pledged to increase the number of toilet trained pigs in that country after one breeder successfully reduced the amount of waste water on his 10,000-pig operation by 80 percent by teaching his pigs to use the toilet. Starting in 2009, one southern Taiwanese pig farmer began smearing special "toilet" areas on his farm with excrement and urine to attract the pigs, cajoling them into doing their business in areas where the waste can be contained (waste from farms is among the primary water pollution complaints received by Taiwan's EPA, and the farmer was...