Did you know that the Head of European Food Safety Authority is calling for animal remains to be fed to farmed animals again? According to the plan, pigs will be fed to chickens and chickens will be fed to pigs. But the BSE ban of the 1990s was put in place for a reason. Have they gone mad? With the news that an animal variant of hospital superbug MRSA has entered the food chain because of the meat industry, surely our government should err on the side of caution in times like these?
Admittedly, there is a global food crisis and grain should not be diverted to farmed animals. Around the world, millions of people are starving to death, while millions of other people become obese from eating too much. But is this the way to go about it? Read this BBC World Service comment piece Bruce Friedrich (he gets around a lot, doesn’t he?!) wrote yesterday about the global food crisis, and how going vegetarian is the best option all round. Be prepared to be enlightened…
