I once had a cat who was outstandingly intelligent.  With my other cats, I
could take a straw and interest them endlessly in following the end of the
straw as I wiggled it back and forth across the floor.  This cat looked at
the wiggling straw for a few moments and then up into my eyes to try and
figure out why I was engaging in such a pointless exercise.

If we take a huge interest in every piddling detail of the disaster that
industrial meat production creates and  involve ourselves in the
intricacies of working out a bit of a diminution of one particular aspect
of this environmental disaster we are dumb cats, indeed.

Peacemeal concerns about industrial meat production is beside the point.

The meat from these animals, who live over the stench of their own bodily
wastes and never have an opportunity to walk has all the chewing resistance
of rotting meat.  It has the flavor of grease.

There is the hydrogen sulfide issue, the methane issue, the ammonia issue,
the heavy metals issue, the phosphorus issue, the antibiotics issue, the
list goes on and on and on.

When are we going to stop watching the end of the straw these people are
switching back and forth in front of us and just say no to this travesty?

These animals are being abused.  The meat is not tasty or healthy for
us.  The manure spread on the land is turning the land into a toxic
waste.  And then there is the nusiance of the odors and the constant threat
to our water quality.

SO WHAT if they decrease the phosphorus in the manure a little bit?

Peggy Murdock

At 02:38 PM 8/16/2001, you wrote:
>Feedstuffs Magazine
>Hog Industry Insider
>August 13, 2001
>By STEVE MARBERY
>Feedstuffs Correspondent
>
>Phytase study
>
>Phosphorous in swine manure was reduced 23% in a dietary phytase study
>by
>animal scientists at Iowa State University's Pork Industry Center. The
>one-year project examined the influence of phytase feeding in finishing
>rations. Phytase, an enzyme that metabolizes phytic acid (phytate) and
>releases digestible phosphorous, did not reduce average daily gain or
>feed
>efficiency or increase diet costs, according to a summary coordinated by
>
>Larry McMullen, Iowa State swine specialist. Iowa and other states are
>moving toward manure application standards based on phosphorous.
>Nitrogen
>has been the limiting nutrient for decades. Parts of Iowa and several
>other
>states have accumulated excess soil phosphorous due to swine density and
>
>larger operations.
>
>Copyright 2001, The Miller Publishing Company, a company of Rural Press
>Ltd.
>
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