[Vision2020] Washington State Farmer Feeds Pot To Pigs

[Tom Hansen]

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Flavor Experiment: Washington State Farmer Feeds Pot To Pigs


SNOHOMISH, Wash. (AP) - Seattle residents can now have marijuana pork chops on the dinner table.
    
Bolstered by the legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington state, pig farmer Jeremy Gross and Seattle butcher William von Schneidau began feeding pot excess earlier this year to hogs. It is part flavor experiment, part green recycling and part promotion.
    
The meat, though, won't get people high.
    
While the passage of recreational marijuana inspired the experiment, Gross and von Schneidau get the marijuana excess - roots, stems, and other part of the plant that are grinded and not used for consumption - from a medical marijuana dispensary.
    
They sell their "pot pig" cuts at von Schneidau's butcher shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market at a premium price - bacon is $17 a pound while chops go for $16.90 a pound.

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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
  
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