ALLIGATOR FARMS
February 1st, 2003 BY PHILIP FINE ALLIGATORS, long thought of as ferocious swampland predators, are getting an image make-over courtesy of the meat industry. A test farm in the US mid-west, where alligators are as rare as, erh, alligators, has forgone the gruesome and wasteful inevitability of burying its dead pigs and piglets, and is instead feeding them to a couple of cold-blooded hired hands. Kris Kohl, agricultural engineer at Iowa State University's outreach service is running the project and has 20 Iowa farmers ready to start raising the gators on the farms. Each of ...
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