Tuesday, February 11, 2014

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They Eat What?
When many Americans think of farm animals, they picture cattle munching grass on rolling pastures, chickens pecking on the ground outside of picturesque red barns, and pigs gobbling down food at the trough. Over the last 50 years, the way food animals are raised and fed has changed dramatically , to the detriment of both animals and humans. Many people are surprised to find that most of the food animals in the US are no longer raised on farms at all. Instead they come from crowded animal factories, also known as large confined animal feeding operations. Under current law, pigs, chickens, and turkeys that have been fed rendered cattle can be rendered and fed back to cattle. A loophole that may allow mad cow agents to infect healthy cattle. Animal feed legally can contain rendered road kill, dead horses, and euthanized cats and dogs. I don't know about you, but I don't want anything to do with this situation.