Las Vegas farmer fattens hogs at the casino buffet [View all]

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NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV.—With a satisfied grin, farmer Bob Combs watches the big truck slowly dump its greasy load, kitchen leftovers that send off a sickening spray as they splash into a metal bin.

The greenish-brown concoction — with hotdogs, corn, bright-orange carrots and bits of lobster bubbling to its surface — is ready to start a new culinary chapter. Just 24 hours earlier, these food scraps, albeit in decidedly more appetizing form, were served up to customers at lavish all-you-can-eat buffets on and off the Vegas Strip.

Now a new, less finicky clientele awaits: 2,500 pigs on Combs’ hog farm, a ramshackle spread of pens about 15 kilometres from the resort city’s gleaming hotel restaurants. A nose-insulting stench permeates the air.

“What smell?” the farmer asks with a wry smile. “Ahhhh, that’s good. It don’t bother me. To me, it’s like walking past a bakery.” .....................(more)

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