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Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?
“It seems ghoulish, but it is a perfectly legal and common practice for chicken litter — the material that accumulates on the floor of chicken growing facilities — to be fed to cattle,”
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Poultry litter consists of manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house chickens and turkeys. It can contain disease-causing bacteria, viruses (including H5N1), antibiotics, toxic heavy metals, pesticides and even foreign objects such as dead rodents, birds, rocks, nails and glass.
@EverMama8_ I once read, a blog post I think, by an American which said that his kids would never eat American meat. His reason was that they were fed on poultry litter, which contains some kind of cyanide.
I found that hard to believe, but now you mention the litter problem, I'm not so sure anymore.
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