Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  My own comments on the feeding of chicken litter to cattle, which are posted at http://www.madcownews.org, are as follows:
This is fascinating news for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that chicken litter is being fed to cattle in the U.S. and, therefore, cows are ingesting highly toxic arsenic that's contained in the chicken litter.
But don't put it past meat growers to use any chemical necessary to generate more profits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Conventional cows, in fact, are being fed chicken litter and other animals.
Ronnie: Yes, they take it from birth. Cows were traditionally weaned on their mother's milk, but industrial agriculture figured out that it's pretty expensive to wean the calves on milk, so they decided to wean them on blood. That is common practice nowadays on a conventional dairy farm. | | Mike: Is it fair to say, Ronnie, that the organic-labeled Horizon Milk on the shelves in Wal-Mart right now comes, at least in part, from cows that were at one point in their lives fed blood, manure, chicken litter and some other things you mentioned? Is that accurate?
Ronnie: Yes, half of Horizon Organic's milk today comes from these factory dairy feedlots. One hundred percent of Aurora Organic's milk comes from these factory dairy feedlots. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  The millions of pounds of chicken litter (feces, feathers and all) scraped off the floors of chicken houses are recycled as cattle feed. The cattle industry considers this "good protein." The other ingredients of cattle feed consist of ground-up parts of animals, such as deceased chickens, pigs and horses. According to the industry, giving the cattle natural, healthy feeds would be far too costly and so unnecessary. Who really cares what the meat is made of, as long as it looks like meat? |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | They are doped up with hormones and antibiotics and fed a diet that includes - believe it or not - chicken litter. As printed in January, 2004, in USA Today:
Since August 1997, FDA has banned the use of cattle remains as an ingredient in feed for other cows, goats and sheep. But there are plenty of loopholes. The FDA has been considering ways to close them since 2002 but has not done so.
Poultry can't get mad-cow-like diseases, so feeding them protein meal made from rendered cattle has been considered safe. | | Meat isn't unhealthy, in my opinion, if it comes from small farms where cows can roam free, eat raw grass, and aren't doped up with a chemical cocktail or fed chicken litter.
Action Item:
If you choose to eat animal products, buy exclusively from organic farms and ranches.
Organic beef makes a difference in your health
To make this long story short, then, if you're going to eat beef, pork or poultry, eat organic. It's worth it. Here's a brief look at what an organic ranch looks like:
Dale Lasater stands in a corral full of huge bulls, feeding them treats from his hand. | | Thanks to AMR equipment combined with bizarre feed practices like feeding chicken litter to cows - and the reluctance of the USDA to require mandatory testing of cows for mad cow disease - this disease could be in your freezer right now, says Professor Ira Krull from Northeastern University:
"The American public should be concerned, at this moment, there is contaminated beef sitting in grocery stores and personal freezers across the country," says Krull.
From a write-up on Krull's statement published by ScienceDaily. | | We've already seen how the beef industry feeds diseased, dead cow parts, including spinal cord tissue, to chickens, and then takes that chicken litter and feeds it back to cows. Is it any surprise that the poultry industry is any less inhumane in their operations? To them, it's just a factory after all. Chickens are kept in tiny cages for the duration of their miserable lives. Their beaks are cut off so they can't injure other chickens when they go mad from the conditions under which they are forced to live. |
Philip Yam
See book keywords and concepts |  The reason is that chickens may eat the feed—and "chicken litter" may be fed to cows. chicken litter is the stuff swept off the floors of chicken houses —and that includes feed, feathers, and feces. The practice is believed to be rare, restricted mostly to on-farm use, but it is legal nonetheless.12 As such, the Harvard assessment identified the dead-on-the-farm cattle as potential sources of infectivity, so now the USDA does try to test those animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It reminds me of the beef industry, where one of the USDA-approved feed ingredients for cows is, believe it or not, "chicken litter." (I'm not making this up.) Apparently, there's no good way to get rid of all that chicken excrement unless you feed it to cows. You can look this up on the USDA website if you don't believe me. Here's a Google search that will bring up some articles on it. With fluoridation, the American public is basically being treated like cattle. Here: eat some industrial waste products for us, please! |
Philip Yam
See book keywords and concepts | | The reason is that chickens may eat the feed—and "chicken litter" may be fed to cows. chicken litter is the stuff swept off the floors of chicken houses —and that includes feed, feathers, and feces. The practice is believed to be rare, restricted mostly to on-farm use, but it is legal nonetheless.12 As such, the Harvard assessment identified the dead-on-the-farm cattle as potential sources of infectivity, so now the USDA does try to test those animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Mike: Is it fair to say, Ronnie, that the organic-labeled Horizon Milk on the shelves in Wal-Mart right now comes, at least in part, from cows that were at one point in their lives fed blood, manure, chicken litter and some other things you mentioned? Is that accurate?
Ronnie: Yes, half of Horizon Organic's milk today comes from these factory dairy feedlots. One hundred percent of Aurora Organic's milk comes from these factory dairy feedlots. | | Conventional cows, in fact, are being fed chicken litter and other animals.
Ronnie: Yes, they take it from birth. Cows were traditionally weaned on their mother's milk, but industrial agriculture figured out that it's pretty expensive to wean the calves on milk, so they decided to wean them on blood. That is common practice nowadays on a conventional dairy farm. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So, if you take a cow that has been eating pesticides, herbicides and chicken litter -- which is fed to cows along with all kinds of other strange things -- this is all being filtered into the cow's liver.
Newman: Right, and then we are feeding this to our pets. A lot of diets recommend liver as a protein source. It is high in iron, and it's good with flavor and the pets love it. I mean, I use a little bit of liver as flavoring in our canned food. A little bit each day isn't going to hurt. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  If you have two pieces of beef on the shelf in front of you, and one piece is $3 a pound and from a cow that has been raised in a terrible environment -- that has been fed chicken litter, pumped up full of hormones, has had no access to the outside and has been abused in an inhumane way by corporate ranching operations -- then that's going to have a very destructive, negative effect on your energetic health. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | But don't put it past meat growers to use any chemical necessary to generate more profits. We've already seen how the beef industry feeds diseased, dead cow parts, including spinal cord tissue, to chickens, and then takes that chicken litter and feeds it back to cows. Is it any surprise that the poultry industry is any less inhumane in their operations? To them, it's just a factory after all. Chickens are kept in tiny cages for the duration of their miserable lives. |
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