Weisse Luft said:
Might be in some third world countries but done accidently. It is NOT practiced here. Pigs will NOT eat it and it has no value to ruminants.
Swine are by far the CLEANEST animal with poultry the dirtiest due to the typical processing techniques. Poultry also are fed a diet high in hydrogenated oils. Swine cannot tolerate hydrogenated oils and as such, have the lowest percentage of cholesterol of any animal fat.
Arterial plaque only became a problem after the advent of hydrogenated oils. Before then, lard, butter and tallow were the only solid fats used in food.
If what you say is true then here is a short list of places you should contact to have them correct their material;
At the larger feedlots the animals are fed a diet designed for only one purpose -- to fatten them up as cheaply as possible. This may include sawdust laced with ammonia and feathers, shredded newspaper, "plastic hay",(85% ethylene / 15% propylene), processed sewage, inedible tallow and grease, poultry litter, cement dust and cardboard scraps. Artificial flavors and aromas are added to trick the animals into eating the mixture.
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“In parts of the country where cattle are raised near poultry production areas, it is not uncommon to feed them (the cows) poultry litter – basically excreta, bedding, spilled feed and feathers.” … “But there is concern that the spilled feed (containing cow parts) as well as partially digested feed might end up back in the cattle troughs, resulting in the same potential cycle of infection that caused the British outbreak of mad cow.”
http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/030600pumadcow.htm
The allowance of feeding poultry litter to cattle should be immediately banned. Ruminant byproducts shall not be allowed in poultry feed. When prohibited ruminant protein material is fed to poultry, the BSE prion may pass through the bird unchanged and be present in the litter along with spilled feed. When this litter is fed back to cattle the prion would be present to infect cattle.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:...ies/5.pdf++BSE++"poultry+litter"++offal&hl=en
Given that poultry manure/ poultry litter containing droppings, feathers and waste feed is a potentially high-risk material, FAO recommends that the feeding of poultry manure/ poultry litter should be banned in countries affected by or at risk from avian influenza, even if correctly composted, ensiled or dried with heat treatment.
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/zh/health/diseases-cards/avian_issues.html
Ruminant protein has been banned from cattle and sheep feed in Canada and the United States since 1997. Currently in Canada – as well as in the United States – feed manufacturers and livestock producers can feed rations containing ruminant protein to non-ruminants – mainly pigs and poultry. However, there are fears that pig and poultry feed containing ruminant protein could be accidentally fed to cattle or sheep of poultry litter containing spilled poultry feed could be fed to cattle or sheep and spread the disease.
http://foodhaccp.com/msgboard.mv?parm_func=showmsg+parm_msgnum=1016602
What you're saying concerning the introduction of hydrogenated oils and the connection to atherosclerosis would indicate that heart attacks and stroke were unknown as little as 50-years ago. This, however, simply isn't true. Having said that, it is true that the prominence of the problem has increased several fold since the introduction of hydrogenated oils into the human diet. But it's also important to note that over that same time period, the consumption of meat products has also seen a marked increase in western diets.
Even during the Korean war it was noted that 77% of American soldiers autopsied showed signs of atherosclerosis. Korean soldiers of the same age showed no such buildup of plaques in their arteries. However, after a large group of Korean soldiers were placed on the U.S. Army diet, they too began to show unmistakeable signs of developing atherosclerosis.
Enos, W., "Pathogensesis of Coroonary Disease in American Solldiers Killed in Korea," Journal of the American Medical Association
Collens, W., "Atherosclerotic Disease: An Anthropologic Theory," Medical Counterpoint, pg 54
Taik Lee, Kyu, "Chemicopathologic Studies," Archives of Internal Medicine
Hausman, P., "Jack Sprat's Legacy - The Science and Politics of Fat and Cholesterol," Richard Mauk Publishers, NY, pgs 28, 196
Hydrogenated oils are part of the problem. They are not all of the problem. Cholesterol plays a major part and a great number of studies have concluded that blood syrum cholesterol is a major factor in risk of heart attack and stroke. Eat what you wish and think what you wish. But thinking a diet is healthy doesn't make it so.