Thursday, January 2, 2014

They’re Feeding WHAT to Cows?

OnEarth

'Poultry litter' is exactly what it sounds like: the filthy stuff scraped off the floor of a chicken coop. Feeding it to cattle (yes, that happens) risks the spread of mad cow disease—yet the FDA has done nothing to stop it. Full story here.

2 comments:

PLT said...

This article refers to the US. Does anyone know what goes on here in Canada? (Or wants to?)

John Fefchak said...

Didn't anyone pay attention or learn any thing from
the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as mad cow disease ?

Apparently Not! It seems that the people who are doing this feeding have themselves been affected.
"degeneration of the brain"

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