"Billy" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

I'm pretty sure that would be illegal here. I'm sure it is in the UK
since the last but one foot and mouth outbreak. IIRC, that outbreak
was in the
early 2000s and was supposedly caused from restaurant scraps which had a
furrin origin.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/david_kirby_on_the_looming_threat

Something else we feed chickens that people don¹t realize is beef
products. And when those chickens eat that beef product, some of it
falls into their litter. Well, we produce so much chicken litter in this
country, because of these factory farms, and it is so rich in phosphorus
and nitrogen, its land application uses are limited. So you have surplus
chicken litter and nothing to do with it. What do they do with it? They
feed it to cattle. So we feed beef cows chicken crap. That chicken
litter often contains bits and byproducts of cattle. So we are actually
feeding cattle to cattle, which is a risk factor for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease. We actually feed cattle
products to cattle in three different ways: chicken litter, restaurant
scraps, and blood products on dairy farms. And all the mad cow cases in
this country came from mega-dairies where, when that calf is born, they
remove it from its mother immediately, because that mother¹s milk is a
commodity, it¹s worth money, so instead they feed that calf a formula
that includes bovine blood products, and again increasing the risk of
mad cow disease.

OMG! I feel sick just thinking about eating any US beef or eggs after
reading that. Are consumers are warned of those practices?