June 29, 2024 | 15:04 GMT +7
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US Democrat Senator Cory Brooker (New Jersey) recently introduced the No Stools in Herds’ Troughs Act, which specifically targets the practice of feeding chicken litter to cows in large-scale feedlots and dairies.
The routine factory farming practice is banned in the UK following the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, and in Canada, but is allowed in the US, although the practice has raised public health alarms due to the risk of spreading disease from chickens to cows.
On animal health and welfare grounds, NO SHT Act would:
We must put an end to unsanitary factory farming practices that prioritises profits over public health, including the feeding of poultry litter to cattle. Feeding animal waste to livestock is irresponsible and cruel. A healthy food system cannot contain these types of practices that pose a danger to human and animal health.”
US Democrat Senator Cory Brooker (New Jersey)
(Poultryworld)
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