Pigs Are Eating Las Vegas' Casino Leftovers and It's Saving the Planet 

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Kind of funny.. the food people don't eat ends up back on their plates in a different form...

As someone who works and lives in Vegas, these pigs have better table manners than the customers I deal with.

"I see a sausage. That's kinda meta." I say kinda cannibalism.

The plastics are grinded together with the food. My god

I feel like "Saving the planet" is used so freely nowadays.

*Food scraps arrive at pig farm Pig: "Looks like meats back on the menu boys."

Anyone who's ever planned a wedding, a family reunion, or even a funeral banquet knows how hard it is to get the quantities right. A particular item will be the most popular and eaten completely while another item will go 80% untouched. Professional buffets with lots of customers can do a better job at matching supply to demand just from experience, but it's still a crapshoot.

"She's shes something else." With a disgusted look on her face. 😂😂😂

"Well you see the pigs were fed rich people leftovers, that's why this bacon is $1,000."

Grocery stores are actually some of the biggest contributors to food waste

“To uhhh replenish the oyster ecosystem” this dude doesn’t care one bit lmao

Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” did a piece on this several years ago. ANYTHING that is not edible is removed from the scraps, then it’s cooked before it’s fed to the pigs.

“It’s saving the planet” is far too grandiose a statement to make, but it’s certainly putting those leftovers to good use

My grandma would smack my hands if we left leftover in our plate. Because she was a survivor of ww2 and she experienced the true meaning of hunger.

when the world was in lockdown these farmers and the pigs really felt the pinch. I hope they're still operational.

I can see the farmers be like: "This is my pig and his name is Mignon, and has a diet of all the leftover filets mignons."

I worked at a casino for 10 yrs and we ate the same exact food as the buffet in our cafeteria only at a discount price . And what we didn't eat went to homeless shelters.

Jesus that pig feeding session was post-apocalyptic

I stopped eating pork years ago. This video is another reason why.

The elementary school I attended in an area that wasn't exactly in the rural, urban, or suburban area, but had been fairly rural beforehand---had a small, outdoor hog farm owned by some family on a street directly behind the school. They fed those hogs our leftovers. That is why they had canned beets on the menu so very often, I think. Hardly any kids like those, but they are good for pigs as well as people. We were required to scrape our trays into the garbage cans, pour any left-over milk into those same cans, remove all plastic and napkins and milk cartons and put them in the other trash can and put our tray in the window to be washed. When the hog farm quit operating, I thought it was illegal to do that anymore for health reasons and such. Something that really made me think that was when I was grown, many years later, I married and my husband wanted to raise some out on our place. I thought of asking the big grocery store for milk going out of date, and I was given some by the kid working in dairy. Well, those pigs loved that skim milk and they got so pretty, white and clean looking and fast. They didn't sunburn and get dry anymore during that time and for a while afterward, and it was like dirt didn't want to stick to them. It had to be good for them, or they wouldn't have looked so great so fast. I had put it all in an extra freezer and gave the three of them all a gallon or two a day until it was all gone. This went on for a couple of weeks or so. When I went back to get some more, the dairy guy told me it was illegal to give or sell it (I was willing to buy some at a very reduced rate), and that they had to pour it down the drain, and the kid just didn't know that. I told him how good it was for the pigs and what a stupid, wasteful shame that policy was. Those pigs never forgot I had given them that skim milk and they would scream and scream at me every time they ever caught site of me. They never screamed like that for my husband who brought them their regular feed, and procured some wilting produce and even some unsold donuts from other places of business, but they would try to bust our eardrums if they ever caught a glimpse of me from the distance.

Pigs eat better in Nevada than the homeless under the streets. RIP Demolition Man

That guy completely lied when he said only 10% doesn’t get eaten.

I’ve seen leaked videos of this at the hog feed plant THEY GIVE THEM THE LEFTOVERS STILL IN THE PACKAGING and they grind the plastic up with the food and the pigs eat the plastic and then we eat it

I really thought that Casinos were breeding giant pigs in the thumbnail

Can we just convince RU-vid to put the comments back where they were?

Dirty Jobs did this story 10 years ago

FYI pigs' digestive systems are tough as nails. It's good to filter out stuff like napkins and silverware as much as possible, but if some ends up in the trough it's not gonna kill a pig. One of the most dangerous parts of pig farming is slipping in the muck, because anyone not young and spry enough to get up quickly can literally get eaten by a hoard of pigs; clothes, bones, everything gone. It's actually a way people have disposed of murder victims in rural areas. But yeah, pigs are tough.

"The world is overpopulated, that's why people are starving" Yeah sure..

3:03 Sausages and corn dogs. So they are feeding pork to pigs.

Lord forbid people change their life style to save the planet, that would be too inconvenient

"We're saving the planet" 2 years later, the west coast is in a historic drought. Misuse of words, seems so

When I was in the Marines, station in 29 Palms, our chow hall had a garbage can for trash and a can for food scraps. The scraps went sent to a hog farm. And you did not want to be the one caught throwing paper into the food bin.

Did I hear correctly: They accept food with napkins and plastic cutlery and just shred it to feed their livestock????

That’s kind of scary. So,,,pigs are eating leftover pig hmmmmm

Feeding sausage to pigs is just a way of expressing gratitude by giving back what we took

I liked the part about them saving food & shelteres being able to order it. Now that's a good way to deal with this problem & also people who can't afford food.

Fun Fact.: Back in the Day Las Vegas Mobsters will feed you to the pigs. And say you left on Permanent Vacation.

Is it just me or does anyone else find it disturbing that they let non-food items get in the food for the pigs?

It looks like the leftovers are being efficiently and properly used, especially the stuff that goes to the poor. This should be a model for restaurants and grocery stores everywhere.

35yrs ago I worked in a small hospital in the U.K. countryside, we sent food waste to the local pig farmer. We avoided putting in pork, teabags, paper etc, but the food was simpler then. If you saw pigs in the wild, they love eating things like acorns, roots, veg, fruit, insects etc, pigs do better in shady forests too.

Restaurant : *throws perfectly good expensive food* Me: *oinking profusely*

Am I the only one who looked at the thumbnail and thought the pig was like 2 tons??

Imagine being the lucky pigs to be able to eat food from the Riviera

So this must be the farm Mike Rowe spoke about in his TED Talk on Dirty Jobs. That’s one hell of an operation.

I’m surprised no one said “It gives the pigs extra flavor.”

This is what was always done and still is to very large extent in developing countries...

Nice to see the piggies having a good time!

I’m from Vegas myself, and this is the first time I’m witnessing something that is unnatural to animals especially trash

2:43 when they squealed in excitement for food I felt that

There are some pigs on two feet that eat AT the buffets also.

I still dont get why people end up eating pork?!

As a pig from Las Vegas, I could taste the wine spilt on the hamburger in the dumpster surrounded by homeless people.

I'm homeless and I'm hitchhiking to LV. Wish me luck!

This just says excess and humans are out of control.

Making pigs become canabalistic by feeding them breakfast sausage and ham. Ironic.

So the pig eats the food that’s left over basically dirty waste for y’all to Feed us the pig so basically we eating dirty patty sausage dirty bacon dirty pepperonis and dirty hotdogs hell nah😂😂😂

Pig: Mmmm Taste like my wife Melinda that mysteriously disappeared while I was sleep.. *pig stops chewing widens eyes and looks up*

I SEE WHY MUSLIMS DON'T EAT PORK.

Basically saying "we rather feed pigs than the homeless"

When I was young I was told by a random guy "never trust a pig farmer" and I never shook it.

“You are what you eat ” applies neatly here

How about giving that food to all the homeless you have in Vegas? Take a drive down Fremont you’ll see tent city.

The farmer that though of this idea is a genius!

“I feel bad about myself doing this but here I am”, also the kind of reporter that says “but this is my job sir”

Its ironic, commercial farming is what's feeding all this.

Thanks. Not eating pork again!

I only can think in that scene from "Snatch"...

Not to mention it can be turned into Compost, when the world's running out of soil..

people: why God, why didn't u give the world enough food so people won't starve? God: I gave you enough for everyone in the world, look at what you are doing with them.

Im a farm girl and i can imagine how bad that place smells like🤮... With thousands of pigs being fed with waste, im sure the area there is highly polluted🤮

Your unfinished food will come back to your plate 🍽 😅

I must admit, that's some gourmet slop right there.

if they are gonna throw out that much food, why couldnt I walk into the restaurants and eat for free?

I never ever want to eat pigs pork again in my entire life

What good comes from stuffing yourself with as much food as possible from the troff of a wasteful system. There is so much food that goes to waste from preparing, serving and cleaning up a buffet style feeding. That could go away and I wouldn't miss it.

I worked with a guy that filled 5 gallon buckets with uneaten food for his hogs and it was actually a really smart way to recycle prepared food.

“veteran pig farmer & semi-pro gambler” .. did they ask him what he wanted his professions to be 😂☠️

I work in casinos and most food waste goes in dumpsters not to pig farms not to shelters

To The Reporter - - - Great reporting in both content and presentation. - - - - - Hope to see more of your work.

1. They don’t want to eat that 2. That’s not how pigs would naturally live 3. No body eats the food at the All You Can Eat hotels in Vegas.

“-When the buffets seem pretty empty and sad...” if only he knew in less than a year after this video was posted....😳🥺☹️🥄

It's pretty common here in the Philippines many pig farmers here use food scrap from hotel and restaurant.

Here in the U.K. pigs aren’t permitted to eat catering waste. It is illegal to feed catering waste, kitchen scraps, meat or meat products to farmed animals.

That thumbnail made the pig look like it's the size of Okja

They feeding pork to pigs 😌

That's the nastiest hog hog operation I've ever seen they need to clean up those pins at least once a week

3:14 I have so many questions and no answers

Those pigs give me Spirited Away feels....

The disgust on the reporters face when seeing the pig farm 😂 priceless! Welcome to reality

133 billion pounds of food go to waste in a year in the United States 🤔 🤦🏾‍♀️

I am a third generation Las Vegan and the pig farm was notorious for being the place where the Mob would dispose of bodys (pigs will eat everything) and also, my grandparents tell me that this city was better when the Mob ran it

Imagine making money selling food and then making more money selling the left overs of the food they sold for money🤯

Man I love pork but damn this has me thinking 🤔

Thats the most dirty pigfarm i'v ever seen! Here in Norway the pig's are almost as clean as the people. Seriously! 😊

There is enough for everybody’s needs but not for greed.

True meaning of : What goes around is what comes around , Whatever happens stays in Vegas 😂

I used to go to high school school downwind from that pig farm. The smell that came from that facility was the worst I've ever experienced!

That reminds me of my father when he was working on a food factory as a manager. Theres a lot of food wasted because either its broken (e.g oreos that are broken in half) or expiration date is in less than a month. They came up with an idea to sell the rejected products into cheaper prices that are up to 60% less. They did that for many years but got caught. So instead my dad just brought boxes of junk foods to be eaten for ourselves. Best time of my life because i got to sell food in my classroom and eat junk foods everyday without my parents complaining.

The chefs are cooking “Proceeds to show every worker reheating bagged/precooked food.”