Farmers feed candy to cows

[ys]

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/news/economy/farmers-cows-candy-feed/index.html

"As the price of corn has climbed, farmers either sold off their pigs and cattle, or they found alternative feeds," said Mike Yoder, a dairy farmer in Middlebury, Ind. He feeds his 400 cows bits of candy, hot chocolate mix, crumbled cookies, breakfast cereal, trail mix, dried cranberries, orange peelings and ice cream sprinkles, which are blended into more traditional forms of feed, like hay.

[jessica]

this has been in practice for a while, although its generally just scraps from the industrial food industry, but that could mean anything

i thought this story was pretty alarming, the fact that the coloring in candy has to be "disposed" of at a chemical waste facility, and how easy it is for that to make its way into the environment and who know what harm it's done to the bees

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-05/news/34283902_1_bees-honey-biogas-plant-ribeauville

[Dorothy]

It's all pretty alarming - and disgusting too Jessica. The article did say that this has been going on a very long time.
 
If what's posted here doesn't convince people to eat nothing but grass-fed - I don't know what would!