How Pigs Save Oregon Hemp Farmers
This kind of cooperation is extremely beneficial for owners of restaurants in the city of Portland, since the meat of pigs grown on hemp farmers has certain therapeutic properties, which suggests that visitors are willing to pay not only for the quality of dishes, as well as the history of pigs, but pay attention to the therapeutic properties of products made from artiodactyl meat fed with hemp leaves and inflorescences.
The pages of the profile electronic publication of Ukrainian hemp breeder, which is an integral part of the Ukrainian Technical Cannabis Association, described “ Trends in the hemp industry ”, explaining “ Why technical hemp replaces psychoactive hemp in Oregon ,” and “What the overproduction of CBD in Switzerland led to." Explained " How Americans Try to Overcome the Cannabis Overproduction Crisis " in two Pacific Northwest US states (Oregon and Washington). This article focuses on how Oregon farmers caught in a crisis of overproduction sell their perishable hemp products that could not be sold through state pharmacy chains.
“A great story dish always resonates with guests,” said Vitaliy Paley, owner and chef at Paley's Place Bistro and Bar (Portland, Oregon). “A dish with a very tasty and unique story for Oregon is a much more powerful PR tool that is not only memorable, but also has a significant therapeutic effect.” The story Mr. Payley talks about is pigs that are fed cannabis leaves and inflorescences.
The owner of the Paley's Place Bistro and Bar restaurant signed a contract with a local farmer, David Hoyle, who until recently had been growing cannabis for medical purposes. According to D. Hoyle “there is nothing new in feeding pigs with hemp green mass. This is a long-standing practice of feeding pigs by-products of agricultural production. ” Given the impossibility of selling the grown crop of medical hemp at a decent price, the agricultural producer began to feed the flowers and leaves of the hemp plant prepared for sale to the pigs.
A feature of this technology is the fact that the endocannabinoid system of pigs is not much different from the human one. Those. Using the leaves and inflorescences of the plant to feed domestic animals, the farmer not only restores it in pigs, but also does everything possible to ensure that substances in the plant that have a therapeutic effect accumulate in animal meat. Therefore, hemp can be considered a healthy part of the animal’s diet and can be given in almost unlimited quantities.
Another positive bonus of pig fattening with hemp leaves and inflorescences is that pigs gain weight much faster, are healthier and sound strange, have a milder character compared to their relatives, who consume traditional food. According to Mr. Hoyle, "The artiodactyls that he fed the" green mass "of hemp were the" most obedient "of all the animals that he had ever raised."
Commentary of the Ukrainian Technical Hemp Association
This kind of cooperation is extremely beneficial for owners of restaurants in the city of Portland, since the meat of pigs grown on hemp farmers has certain therapeutic properties, which suggests that visitors are willing to pay not only for the quality of dishes, as well as the history of pigs, but pay attention to the therapeutic properties of products made from artiodactyl meat fed with hemp leaves and inflorescences.
Regulatory support for the cultivation of hemp for medical purposes in Oregon has been provided since 2015. The second year in the state there has been a crisis of overproduction of leaves and inflorescences of medical hemp, however, it is illegal to sell these products outside the state. Fattening pigs with “green mass” of hemp followed by selling “hemp meat” to restaurants in major cities of the state certainly does not fully compensate for the losses of farmers specializing in the legal cultivation of psychoactive hemp, but it will definitely cover the costs of cultivating hemp plants due to the higher cost of not just healthy pork meat, but also a product with a certain therapeutic effect.
It has already been described as “ hemp is introduced into the diet of American piglets, ” however, the idea of American hemp breeders to realize the “green mass” of hemp, which has a therapeutic effect in such a rather unusual way, can be an example for our agricultural producers, who at the moment mostly do not use highly liquid raw materials - leaves and inflorescences of technical hemp, even if only in this way.