In January of 2004 the FDA moved to ban feeds containing cattle blood and poultry litter, which includes manure.
Feed can still include parts of pigs, fish, chicken, horses, even cats or dogs. And some of those animals -- before being rendered and mixed up for cattle feed -- are raised on food containing the same cow parts now banned from cattle consumption.
Additionally, there is nothing to prevent factory cattle farms from directly feeding their cattle with chicken shit or other items which can not be SOLD as feed.
To some degree, every thing is recycled or "rendered" in nature. All the parts of a dead chicken in the wild would be recovered in the growth of plants, worms, bugs and other things which might be eaten by other chickens.
But the point is that the larger the difference between the consumer and the by-products produced by the doner, the smaller the chance the something "bad" will happen. Feeding cow to cows has proven to be catistrophic. Feeding one animal to another is less so, but the best would be to feed animal parts to plants before feeding those plants to other (or the same) animals. ON 20040522@1:43:56 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/chickens.htm#38129.5721759259 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Says Maria figured out how to do the earthworms! They have tripled in population in the last few months, and as we continue to fine tune this, includeing growing worms in the rabbit poop, we will have more to feed the girls. Now I just need to convince Maria to write up how she did it... ON 20040522@2:10:14 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/snails.htm# James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] I have agreed to maintain this page. ON 20040522@2:10:31 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/snails.htm# James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] edited the page. Difference: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/diff.asp?url=H:\techref\other\snails.htm&version=3 ON 20040522@2:20:16 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/safebugtraps.htm#38129.5974074074 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] See also: http://www.herpshop.com.au/pictures/hs_RoachTrap.jpg No poison roach trap. ON 20040522@2:28:26 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/safebugtraps.htm#38010.7689467593 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Replied to post 38010.7689467593 |Insert 'As far as I can tell, this REALLY doesn't work. The flys are not only NOT interested in it, they regularly landed and were able to take right back off again despite the fact that it was sticky as hell.' at: '' To make your own flypaper, take a brown paper bag and cut it into small manageable strips. Boil equal parts corn syrup and water and then dunk your strip of paper into the mixture. Hang with a thumb tac. ERROR: Can't email. 553 Null recipient not accepted ON 20040526@11:41:27 AM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/peace.htm#38133.4871064815 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Says "They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?"