Carve out Georgia law so unsold cooked kitchen food can feed local pigs and chickens

Georgia’s garbage-feeding rules (O.C.G.A. §§ 4-4-20–21) lump truly unsafe waste with good food that was prepared for people, never eaten, and still fit to feed animals. We are not asking to feed pigs dumpster scrapings, plate waste, feces, or rotten food. We are asking for a narrow, common-sense carve-out: **What should be allowed** - Food prepared in a managed commercial or institutional kitchen (buffet line, school cafeteria, restaurant prep) - Sourced through normal U.S. commercial distributors - Cooked to human food-safety standards - Never served / never eaten (unsold line leftovers) - Handled cleanly and moved promptly to local farms for pigs or chickens **Why this matters** 1. **Safety** — U.S. commercial herds are free of African swine fever and classical swine fever. Thoroughly cooked, same-day institutional leftovers from that supply chain are not the historical disease pathway the broad ban was written around. 2. **Climate** — Landfilling edible organics produces methane. Feeding animals or composting keeps carbon in a better cycle. 3. **Nutrition & farms** — Pigs and chickens are omnivores. Good leftover food is real nutrition and can lower feed cost for local growers. 4. **Local loop** — Citizens and kitchens stay connected to nearby farms instead of a one-way trip to the dump. **What we still support restricting** - Plate scrapings mixed with trash - Unknown-origin cured meat products - Putrid or unsafe waste - Practices that ignore basic sanitation Hosting this petition on Pulse is not an endorsement by any host organization of every political view — it is a lawful signal so leaders can see what people want.