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Originally posted by silverking
I guess they'll have to change their slogan.
"So hungry you could eat a horse"
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:18pm EDT
(Reuters) - Mike Yoder's herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives -- and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles.
"It's a pretty colorful load," said Yoder, who operates about 450 dairy cows on his farm in northern Indiana. "Anything that keeps the feed costs down."
As the worst drought in half a century has ravaged this year's U.S. corn crop and driven corn prices sky high, the market for alternative feed rations for beef and dairy cows has also skyrocketed. Brokers are gathering up discarded food products and putting them out for the highest bid to feed lot operators and dairy producers, who are scrambling to keep their animals fed.
In the mix are cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops, orange peels, even dried cranberries. Cattlemen are feeding virtually anything they can get their hands on that will replace the starchy sugar content traditionally delivered to the animals through corn.
"Everybody is looking for alternatives," said Ki Fanning, a nutritionist with Great Plains Livestock Consulting in Eagle, Nebraska
Originally posted by silverking
reply to post by Char-Lee
Actually, it's believed that canabalism can be quite harmful. Studies done in Papua New Guinea linked a disease called Kuru (the human version of mad cow disease) to tribes that traditionally ate their dead.
Sylent6,
Hahaha, very true. In some places cows are considered to be sacred. Worshiped and treated like animals of the gods.
Originally posted by grey580
reply to post by camaro68ss
Horse is eaten in many parts of the world.
Waht's the issue?
Originally posted by milkyway12
reply to post by FuturePeace
That was pretty shady. The burger tasted good and everything but .... What else don't I know?
Last time I learned I was drinking baby fluids through Pepsi, I mean what the hell.edit on 1-2-2013 by milkyway12 because: (no reason given)
To be clear, the aborted fetal tissue used to make Pepsi's flavor chemicals does not end up in the final product sold to customers, according to reports -- it is used, instead, to evaluate how actual human taste receptors respond to these chemical flavorings. Learn more: www.naturalnews.com...
On November 18, 2011, the ban on the slaughter of horses for meat was lifted as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2012.