Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Chicken-eating Cow

So, I mentioned this in class, but it's still kind of freaky. One hears of it and shudders at the thought of a normally benign bovine suddenly jumping trophic levels and tearing flesh from chicken bone. What's even more shudder-inducing, though, is when you realize that this is not, in fact, new... industrially farmed cattle are already fed all kinds of ground up animal meal, including chicken. What makes the CNN website is going on in CAFOs across the country.

1 comment:

Titus said...

You know, the first thing you think of is, in fact a cow tearing a chicken to threads. But it's actually consuming ground up chicken. Isn't that how mad cow disease came about? I don't really know how it came about.

 
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