Here&#39;s an excerpt from an article on msn.com today. Do cows really eat meat? I&#39;m not a farmer, so I don&#39;t know for sure, but this seems like news to me...</span>

What Happens to Recalled Meat?
By Brendan I. Koerner
Posted Monday, October 14, 2002, at 2:50 PM PT

.....The meat will then either be carted off to landfills, tossed into incinerators, or set aside for rendering into nonhuman protein sources—i.e., dog and livestock food. Listeria, which is frequently present in animal placentas, can be destroyed by subjecting it to temperatures in excess of 160 degrees Fahrenheit, so a long spell of industrial-strength cooking can make the recalled turkey pastrami and chicken breasts safe for canine consumption. (However, due in large part to the furor over mad cow disease, there are growing concerns over the wisdom of <span style=\'color:green\'>feeding tainted meat to cattle, regardless of how well it&#39;s been heated.)

I believe that is how mad cow disease started!!feeding animal bi-products back to the cows.. also heard of farmers giving livestock stale beer(large amounts) and they love it!! I think it is kinda gross but what can ya do!! :( :0: :D

Stale beer is better than no beer.

Especially if your a cow.

Snow Monkey, you hit the nail on the head. I&#39;m not sure exactly in what form these "byproducts" were fed to cattle & sheep.

they also eat turnips, beets, potatoes

I like fish hog&#39;s theory :) And the cattle on my dads farm
love to eat crab apples and cobs of corn.What the animal
eats definately has an impact on how the meat will taste
in the end.MMMMM corn fed deer :D with beer(that isn&#39;t stale)

Now I know why I dont eat beef! :hallo4:

Stale BEER ??? Ok who hasn&#39;t been drinking their share ??? Or are you just refering to the stuff Labbats puts in their bottles ??
On a more serious note , there is a lot of farmers around here that get the used hops from the local beeer factory to feed to their cows , it&#39;s a cheap source of filler feed and stil has some nutrients in it . As for animal by products you would be amazed what gets processed into something else after it hits the slaughter house floor......eeeeewwwww knuff said

ya thats kinda gross but cows eat ANYTHING we used to have dairy cows on our farm and they would eat anything old new rotten or just plain sick they eat it im thinking they dont have taste buds in their mouth maybe