The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice – banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago – would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels.
Outrage at European moves to feed animal remains to chickens. Anyone knows how to spell BSE? Of course, what it all boils down is cost. This proposal wouldn’t be even considered if it were not cost effective. The irony, of course, is that meat isn’t cost effective. That’s why this crazy ideas surface. It’s a plaster over a wound that won’t stop bleeding.
