It's been common practise with many farm animals - it saves money !
When I was growing up on my fathers farm, we normally fed
processed bone meal to stock animals. After all, the bone meal
was coming from a reputable company, so it had to be good - right ?


"Dan" <air02@ultraonline.com> wrote in message
news:tbj0ueo0kkp482@news.supernews.com...
> Just what idiots thought feeding animal remains to non-carnivorous animals
> was a good idea? This is boggles the mind.
>
> Dan
>
> "Steve Uzochukwu" <steveu2@which.net> wrote in message
> news:3ab952ea.58917332@news.which.net...
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:22:23 GMT, "Sky Shark" <SkySharkNO@SPAMatt.net>
> > wildly wibbled thus:
> > >
> > > And in the US, a farmer's flock of sheep in Vermont has been seized by
> the
> > >govergnment for possible "Mad Cow" contamination. Apparently the
> livestock
> > >were purchased from overseas. Some sources said the sheep were indeed
> > >infected, and some sources did not confirm this. (Can you really trust
> the
> > >media? Uhh, no.) Anyways, they are being shipped to Iowa to be tested.
> > >
> >
> > BSE in cows is similar to scrapie in sheep, and cows developed BSE
> > after being fed with infected feed made from sheep remains.
> >
> > BSE [and CJD]arte examples of diseases that have jumped species.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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