Re: high fat feeds=MEAT

["Marty and Cindy" <bcfarm@vianet.on.ca>]

Anyone remember "madcow disease" ?
Came from feeding dead sheep (processed, though it was) to cows.
Believe the sheep had a disease ('scrapie' ?), died and went to the 
processors  . . . .Just what we wish to introduce! ('course, maybe 
it would explain the sudden 'spooks' :))

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> From: Mary K. Krauss <kraussberner@worldnet.att.net>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: re: high fat feeds=MEAT
> Date: August 30, 1998 8:28 PM
> 
> Since my horses are way too fat, I don't fight the fight some of you are
> discussing--but I am curious, since looking into feeds, I've discovered
> that many of the supplements and the mixed feeds contain _animal_ fat,
ie,
> fat from horses and cows.... Doesn't that seem a bit of a mean trick--
> turning our beloved herbivores into cannibals??  I don't have a problem
> with humans eating meat, but tricking my horse into eating meat seems
> repulsive.  The weird thing to me is how few people seem to know what
> they're feeding--my vet recommended using LMF for instance, and blanched
> when I showed her the contents--hadn't dawned on her that the fat content
> was from anything but plant sources.... Any thoughts?
>