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Meat Wagon: Waste makes haste
Canada says no to ethanol waste as cow feed, and more |
Tom Philpott |
26 Mar 2008 |
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| In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Back in January, a high USDA official made a pair of statements that say a lot about how we regulate industrial food production here in the United States. On the one hand, he admitted to a journalist that feeding cows high levels of distillers grains -- a the mush leftover from corn ethanol production -- had probably contributed to a spike in cases of beef tainted with the deadly E. coli 0157 b ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Arkansas, Big Ag, ethanol, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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