Myrrdin
Agrarian
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- Aug 20, 2000
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Recycling was all the rage one time.
Drink cans, bottles, newspapers. We were extolled to save them all for recycling , help save the earths resources.
For decades we have been using fishmeal as a source of high grade protein to improve animal feed quality. But with world fish stocks becoming depleted, and increasing conservation pressures. New sources of protein for animal feed needed to be found. And yet with areas of the world still starving, it was plainly unacceptable to buy vegetable based protein foods from hungry nations, just for animal feed .
What animal feed manufacturers sell to farmers, as a winter supplement has always been based on by products from other uses, rice husks, sugar beet pulp from sugar making factories, brewers grains from breweries, imperfectly made sweets from chocolate factories.
Around 25% of the liveweight of any butchered animal is waste, Unless a specialised use could be found for it, it goes into landfill sites.. The world is getting more crowded, less space to bury things.
So the idea was developed of recycling the animal by products back into feed, helping the pressure on fish stocks, saving forested areas of the world being turned into farmland to produce soyabeans etc. Easing pressures on human food resources
It was tried on pigs and poultry to start with, and as they're shortlife span animals it worked. So it was extended to sheep and cattle feed supplements.
The theory was fine.......
In practice, someone didn't turn the heat up high enough in the recycling process,,,,, and an organism crossed the species barrier.
Drink cans, bottles, newspapers. We were extolled to save them all for recycling , help save the earths resources.
For decades we have been using fishmeal as a source of high grade protein to improve animal feed quality. But with world fish stocks becoming depleted, and increasing conservation pressures. New sources of protein for animal feed needed to be found. And yet with areas of the world still starving, it was plainly unacceptable to buy vegetable based protein foods from hungry nations, just for animal feed .
What animal feed manufacturers sell to farmers, as a winter supplement has always been based on by products from other uses, rice husks, sugar beet pulp from sugar making factories, brewers grains from breweries, imperfectly made sweets from chocolate factories.
Around 25% of the liveweight of any butchered animal is waste, Unless a specialised use could be found for it, it goes into landfill sites.. The world is getting more crowded, less space to bury things.
So the idea was developed of recycling the animal by products back into feed, helping the pressure on fish stocks, saving forested areas of the world being turned into farmland to produce soyabeans etc. Easing pressures on human food resources
It was tried on pigs and poultry to start with, and as they're shortlife span animals it worked. So it was extended to sheep and cattle feed supplements.
The theory was fine.......
In practice, someone didn't turn the heat up high enough in the recycling process,,,,, and an organism crossed the species barrier.
