The Mega Dairy Farms Cause Rivers of Poisonous Manure - & Abuse Animals

A front-page Washington Post article reveals an industry run amuck:

“You have to cover your face just to go from the house to the car,” said Lynn Henning, 52, a farmer in rural Clayton, Mich., who said she became an environmental activist after fumes from huge new dairies gave her family headaches and burning sinuses. The way that modern megafarms produce it, Henning said, “Manure is no longer manure. Manure is a toxic waste now.”

Interesting note about how horses & cows eat :)

Cows have no upper front teeth, only a thick pad: they graze by wrapping their long tongues around grass and pulling on it. If the ground is wet, they will pull out the grass by the roots, preventing it from growing back. Horses have both upper and lower incisors and graze by "clipping the grass," similar to a lawn mower, allowing the grass to easily grow back.

Link between farmed fish and Mad Cow Disease

Link between farmed fish and Mad Cow Disease
June 26, 2009 Link to full article below

Researchers are suggesting new reasons that support the importance of accurate and comprehensible labeling when it comes to seafood. Scientists from the University of Louisville have now brought into question the safety of eating farmed fish that could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, which is commonly now as Mad Cow Disease.

Although it has not yet been proven that it is possible to transmit the disease to humans through consumption of fish, some farm fished are fed byproducts rendered from cows, leading scientists to believe that a ban of feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish be put into place until the safety of this practice is confirmed.

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is an untreatable, fatal disease that can be contracted by eating parts of an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease). As the disease has been learned to easily spread within the same species, the feeding of rendered cow material to other cattle has been outlawed in many countries due to an outbreak in England that led to 163 deaths.

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