TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."

stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net · 7 months ago

TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."

nul@programming.dev · edit-2 7 months ago

Reminds me of how animal feed suppliers take expired human food, grind it up into a pulp with the plastic packaging not removed, then sell the mush to factory farms, and we get to wonder why meats contain so many microplastics

TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."

TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."

Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows