Can't find corn? US cows fed candy.. [General]

2012 Sep 23
www.reuters.com

"As the worst drought in half a century has ravaged this year's U.S. corn crop and driven corn prices sky high, the market for alternative feed rations for beef and dairy cows has also skyrocketed. Brokers are gathering up discarded food products and putting them out for the highest bid to feed lot operators and dairy producers, who are scrambling to keep their animals fed.

In the mix are cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops, orange peels, even dried cranberries. Cattlemen are feeding virtually anything they can get their hands on that will replace the starchy sugar content traditionally delivered to the animals through corn."

Now how do you put *that* on a label? o.O

2012 Sep 24
If they start giving the cattle super-sized soft drinks, then my world will be complete (-ly insane). ;-)

2012 Sep 24
If they feed dairy cows Count Chocula, will the cows produce chocolate milk ?

2012 Sep 24
Man, I'm going to have to ask around to see if this would be permitted in Canada. Our regulations are pretty strict compared to the US, or anywhere for that matter, when it comes to what you can feed your livestock.

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

(Although "cereals breakfast process residue" is a permitted ingredient...)

2012 Sep 24
Maybe American food producers should lay off the HFCS.