I think that all the military posts used to sell their garbage to local hog farmers, and maybe they still do. I have been on both ends of this transaction. I worked on a pig farm for a month or so when I was in Alaska, back in '63, and we used to take in garbage from a nearby military post. When I joined the army less than a year later, we had to keep our edibles separate from our inedibles at all three of my posts: Fort Knox Kentucky, Fort Gorden Georgia, and West Berlin Germany.
Did you ever wonder why the banana peels went into the inedibles? That's because banana peels are toxic to hogs. Silverware and the odd coffee cup are not toxic to hogs however, they just eat around them. On that farm in Alaska, we used to go out and collect all that stuff from the troughs after the pigs were done eating. The guys on the military post would trade us either coffee or sugar, pound for pound, for all the utensils we returned to them on the next trip. I don't know how that stuff got into the edibles, and I don't think we had a problem with that in Berlin.
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