This must be the ultimate in money making cynicism to come out of the US. It seems that US cattle breeders just do not care what they feed their cattle as long as they turn a profit. Why does the FDA refuse an outright ban?

This is from ENN, Environmental News Network

A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice of feeding chicken feces and other poultry farm waste to cattle.

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“Using the litter, which includes feces, spilled chicken feed, feathers and poultry farm detritus, increases the risk of cows becoming infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease”, said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at Consumers Union.

They say that what the US does first the UK does second. How long before we have US style cattle ‘feedlots’ and feed chicken faeces or maybe we do already.

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