Reply #142: Actually animals ARE still fed to vegetarian animals that you eat,

[Maru Kitteh]

The 97 regulation was poorly designed to attempt to end the feeding ruminants to ruminants. Chicken are still fed their own feces and rendered chickens, pigs and cows, legally.

Cow blood is still fed to cows, legally, even though blood is known to transmit BSE. Cows are still fed the rendered bodies of cancerous and diseased pigs and chickens, who were fed the cancerous and diseased bodies of downer cows and other offal.

The 1997 ban was inadequately constructed and enforcement is NONEXISTENT. I can find NO person or entity charged with violating this worthless regulation.

In fact, it's not even a real ban - it's a labeling requirement on bags of feed containing ruminant animals only. From this article


"The 1997 FDA feed regulation is not a feed ban, but a labeling requirement that meat and bone meal from cattle and other ruminants be labeled 'do not feed to ruminants.' (MCUSA, p. 215-218) Government investigators have found that this rule has been widely ignored and poorly enforced. "

Here is a very short article from a former USDA meat inspector who was among the first to blow the whistle about mad cow.

" For each carcass, says Friedlander, inspectors are allowed only 15 seconds of inspection. Friedlander witnessed cow carcass abscesses bursting over meat that was then hosed off, wrapped up and shipped to the consumer. He encountered supervisors who were more concerned with falsifying inspection documents than protecting consumers from possible cow cancer. Just two weeks ago, he says, a cow in Texas with symptoms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was sent straight to the rendering plant without testing. "

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