Posted on 05/18/2004 7:14:37 AM PDT by presidio9
Cattle brains and other remains that may carry the deadly mad cow disease would be turned into biofuels under a plan announced on Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Cattle brains, skull, eyes, spinal column, small intestine and other parts suspected of harboring mad cow disease were banned from human consumption in December as a safety precaution, shortly after the discovery of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States.
Some consumer groups have called on the Bush administration to go a step further and ban these "specified risk materials" from swine, poultry and other animal feed made from ground-up cattle remains. All cattle parts already are banned from cattle feed to protect against the spread of mad cow disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering tougher regulations on animal feed since finding the brain-wasting disease in the United States. One month ago, an agency official said FDA was considering banning specified risk materials from poultry and swine feed.
Under the new USDA program, a $50 million loan guarantee program would be set up to help small businesses in rural areas develop ways to turn cattle brains and other high-risk parts into a "bio-based source of energy."
Bill Hagy, a deputy administrator at USDA's rural development agency, said the purpose of the pilot program was to gauge commercial interest and to solicit ideas for alternate energy uses for the cattle parts.
"There are incinerating facilities out there that possibility could, with some retooling, be able to accommodate the need," Hagy said.
But Hagy said he did not know whether the pilot program was aimed at finding new uses for the risky cattle parts if they are banned from all animal feed.
A spokeswoman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association said her organization supports the USDA pilot program.
A wider ban on the high-risk cattle parts has been watched closely by the U.S. soybean futures market. With tight soy supplies in the United States, a significant change in animal feed rules could have a big impact on products that could be used as a substitute in animal feeds, such as soybean meal.
Currently, the carcasses of cattle slaughtered at U.S. packing plants are typically sent to a separate rendering plant to be made into food for other animals, cosmetics or other materials. Last year, the United States slaughtered more than 35 million cattle.
MOO?
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Mad Cow Gasoline Co.
Typical bureaucratic crap from one government agency that doesn't know what another agency is doing.
Recently, the EPA gave a $5 million grant to facilitate the fabrication of a plant adjacent to the Butterball turkey plant in Carthage, MO. It turns all turkey waste, including feathers, into oil. It is running 24/7 and puts out 500 barrels of oil per day, along with other minerals.
Check out:
http://www.changingworldtech.com/pdf/GenConfLasVegas3_3_04.pdf
I wonder what could be rendered from Hillary brains?
Well!
That's the first smart thing I've heard under the USDA in months.
Biofuel? One doesn't need "cow brains" or "middle east oil" to power America. We have an infinite source of power right here in the USA.
The continuous flow of hot air from Washington DC has been powering the third world countries for years. The continuous flow of crap coming from the democrats alone is enough to cause a demand for methane powered vehicles, with energy to spare to sell back to the power companies.
We have plenty of waste that can be converted into fuel without relying on any foreign sources.
Would we be changing over to miles per brain?
hehehe...the liberals have been running "ON EMPTY" for Decades...40+ years or more. :/
I'm wondering what the combustion temperature of the fuel is? The Prions which cause mad cow disease are destroyed at around 1200 degrees, otherwise they just get spewed into the atmosphere.
It first occurred to me that this is overkill considering that there has been only one BSE infected cow ever found in the US.
So....
Perhaps there are more infected cattle we're not being told about, or.....
We're finely going to get serious about ridding the country of liberals.
: )
Unreal....
BTTT!!!!!!
In My Opinion this is the only thing a cows brains were ever used for.
Wouldn't your engine run funny if the brain was infected with mad cow disease?
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