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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 9:34 am Post subject: Tackle food waste by feeding it to cows, retailers urged
Tackle food waste by feeding it to cows, retailers urged

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 10:14 am Post subject:
Mmm. Not convinced that feeding cattle junk food will give me healthy cattle to eat. Wouldn't pigs do better on it?

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 10:19 am Post subject:
Surely you mean to say Nothing will do good on it. Feeding junk food to anyone is a recipe for disaster.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 10:20 am Post subject:
I like the idiotic comment st the bottom.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 10:39 am Post subject:

alison wrote:

Surely you mean to say Nothing will do good on it...

Rats tend to do well on it...

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 11:13 am Post subject:
Old news,waste products have been used for decades.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 11:30 am Post subject:
This time they seem to be urging retailers to have their own cattle & instead of selling on the waste-products they want them to give away the food to the needy.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 12:44 pm Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Old news,waste products have been used for decades.

Decades? Centuries! Since forever! The practice was only stopped after the most recent foot and mouth epidemic (wasn't it?).

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 12:46 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Old news,waste products have been used for decades.

Decades? Centuries! Since forever! The practice was only stopped after the most recent foot and mouth epidemic (wasn't it?).

Only for post-consumer waste.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 2:40 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

oldish chris wrote:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Old news,waste products have been used for decades.

Decades? Centuries! Since forever! The practice was only stopped after the most recent foot and mouth epidemic (wasn't it?).

Only for post-consumer waste.

Where is the logic in that?
What might consumers do to it to give it a greater risk.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 3:08 pm Post subject:
Put meat in it.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 3:21 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Old news,waste products have been used for decades.

Decades? Centuries! Since forever! The practice was only stopped after the most recent foot and mouth epidemic (wasn't it?).

Open the pages of the Farmers Guardian,you`ll see for yourself what food waste is available for animal consumption{Is`nt it}

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15439
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 3:28 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Put meat in it.

Ah. I had misconstrued the meaning of "junk food".

john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 5:22 pm Post subject:
Simon Fairlie worked out that you could provide the entire UK Pork Consumption from Food Waste

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 13 6:21 pm Post subject:

john of wessex wrote:

Simon Fairlie worked out that you could provide the entire UK Pork Consumption from Food Waste

These guys seem to have missed that obvious logical step & gone straight for the cow.

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