Meat Supply

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This paper begins with a discussion of the different food groups needed to maintain a healthy and full diet. The paper then suggests that the recent crises in meat supplies in the U.S., including mad cow disease and the chicken sicknesses, have led people to lean towards a more vegetarian diet. The writer also mentions other risks involved in meat eating, including heart disease and fat.

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"The story of mad cow disease reveals a number of unpalatable facts about the beef industry. Heather Hiscox notes that the modern ranching industry has commonly added "animals, fish, poultry, pigs and blood - the remnants of butchered animals, cleaned, dried, ground into meal" to cattle feed. This practice has been adopted to increase production and keep costs low, as part of a larger dietary plan that includes the addition of vitamins and minerals, grains, and forages like hay and grass (Hiscox).
Notes Hiscox, "It used to be considered safe to feed meat and bone meal from sheep, cattle and other ruminant animals that chew their cud, but that ended with the mad cow crisis bin England." In this crisis, thousands of cows got mad cow disease through feed that was supplemented by sheep that were infected with a disease similar to mad cow disease. In 1997, Canada banned using meat supplements and bone meal from ruminants like sheep in cattle feed, and annual inspections of commission feed mills were instituted."

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