<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/73b5fbd0-1d56-4f54-9875-ba5c90c856ac/149BEDBE-BE5C-411A-AC6A-0D64C1707855/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.care2.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/"><H4 id="article_title">Feedlot Cows Fed 1 Billion Pounds of Chicken Waste Yearly</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.care2.com/img/05667006-0BEC-464A-AB83-AB2E333AC5F1" alt="Feedlot Cows Fed 1 Billion Pounds of Chicken Waste Yearly" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/"><P>If you eat feedlot meat, chances are you may be eating chicken waste! Cattle in feedlots across the United States are routinely fed waste from the floors of commercial chicken houses. In fact, <STRONG>1 billion pounds</STRONG> of feces, feathers, spilled feed, straw, dirt and anything else on the floor under the cramped birds are <A href="http://www.care2.com/go/z/19792011">shoveled in front of cattle</A> on feedlots across America each year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/"><P>Life on today's modern, industrial farms has changed drastically. Today, many farms are dealing with 30,000+ animals with one simple goal: to fatten animals as cheaply as possible. So what exactly does that mean? While corn makes up <A href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/cows.html">70-90 percent</A> of the diet of feedlot cattle, the other <STRONG>10 to 30 percent are often made up of floor waste.</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/whats-in-your-meat/"> <A href="http://www.care2.com/go/z/19792011">Urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice of feeding chicken waste to cattle -- sign the petition today</A>!</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/149BEDBE-BE5C-411A-AC6A-0D64C1707855/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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