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| EU threatens Muslim food supply |
| 2008-05-05 |
| The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice - banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago - would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels. But the proposal has outraged animal rights campaigners, Muslim organisations and other groups. They claim the move would put families at risk, offend religious sensibilities and lead to a major consumer backlash. 'There are two million Muslims in Britain and 25 million in Europe and this move would be a disaster for every one of them,' said Dr Abdel Majid-Katme of the Islamic Medical Association. 'This is a sinful idea.' The RSPCA said it had major concerns about the health risks involved, while agriculture experts warned that many consumers would be offended by the idea of a return to the use of animal remains in farm feeds. 'I think there will be such a backlash from consumers that the idea would have to be dropped,' said Tom Acamovic, a nutrition expert based at the Scottish Agricultural College, in Ayr. This from the people who brought us The Haggis? Spare me. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #16 Maybe this is just a polite way to say go back home. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-05-05 21:37 |
| #15 Past problems in Europe were largely because the Europeans had high energy costs (taxes) and tended to skimp on the cooking in the rendering plants. Personally, I'd prefer to eat the scrapple rather than feed it to the chickens, but that's just me. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-05-05 15:51 |
| #14 #8 - lol! |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-05-05 10:16 |
| #13 While I don't give a flying Obama pig about muzzie feelings, feeding other ground up animals has been bad jou-jou in the past. Mad cow spread because of tainted cow brains they fed to other cows. I think I will avoid chicken from the EU for now. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-05 10:06 |
| #12 Hmmmmmm...sounds like somebody's not gonna eat. Too bad... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-05-05 09:32 |
| #11 We're FREEEEEE ! |
| Posted by: Henny Penny 2008-05-05 09:22 |
| #10 Free range chickens eat worms, bugs and feces. Just to put this in perspective. Free range chickens eat whatever they can find. |
| Posted by: Chicken Man 2008-05-05 08:48 |
| #9 Free range chickens eat worms, bugs and feces. Just to put this in perspective. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-05-05 08:38 |
| #8 EU threatens Muslim food supply I thought this was going to be about welfare cuts. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-05-05 08:33 |
| #7 I thought it was ground up cow in the cow feed. As long as it's clean and not the same species, there shouldn't be a problem. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-05 08:31 |
| #6 IIRC Mad Cow disease came from using ground up sheep in the bovine feed. Considering the transmission record of disease from swine to human, this could simply be another avenue for interesting times. These are the same people [EU] so energetically upset about genetically altered grain. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-05 08:28 |
| #5 btw, RJ, I believe the pig-chicken connection is that the free range chickens ate the porkers' poop. This is just the ground up remnants of the slaughterhouse product. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-05 07:10 |
| #4 RJ, I think you better be more worried about the chicks from Tyson, et. al. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-05 07:07 |
| #3 BS! Muslims can eat pork if they have no alternative. As with any religion - especially the bona fide ones (ie: not islam) - doctrine includes both imperatives and permissives, and different criterion for applying same. That is one reason why Muslims support 4 different schools (madhabs) of sharia. Reminder: accomodation of minority religions in Muslim majority states, is negligible or nil. A Muslim is all take and no give. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-05 03:03 |
| #2 Apartheid! Keep the pork and poultry separate! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-05-05 01:20 |
| #1 This sounds frankly like a very short-eighted plan for disaster, I remember that one of the main vectors of Bird Flu was the presence of both fowl and swine on the same farm. Now they plan to feed swine to fowl (NOT their natural foodstuff either) and I see disaster here. Have to remember to NOT eat ANY fowl from britian. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-05-05 00:11 |