Day 069 - 19 Dec 94 - Page 53
1 lot, I have work in farm. I have done a lot of research.
2 My first publication in 1978/9 was on nutrition, and that
3 is also scientific publication.
4
5 Q. What was that called?
6 A. That was The Use of Metabolizable Energy.
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8 Q. Did that get published anywhere?
9 A. Yes, it was.
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11 Q. Where was it published?
12 A. It was published as a thesis in Mexico.
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14 Q. What was the name of the magazine?
15 A. It went directly to the library.
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17 Q. Sorry, I thought you said "magazine". It went directly
18 into the library?
19 A. That is correct.
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21 Q. Do you know about what is fed to the cattle on the feed
22 lots in America?
23 A. That is a very large question. In the US, there is a
24 lot of feed lots. Within those feed lots, the diets will
25 change from year to year, from day to day, depending on the
26 availability of the raw materials, depending on the cost of
27 the raw materials. I know what goes into the normal diet
28 of a feed lot, that you can make some generalisations from
29 them.
30
31 Q. Does McDonald's have any specifications about what the
32 cattle should and should not be fed?
33 A. No.
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35 Q. It does not?
36 A. No.
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38 Q. So, generally speaking, what do you say goes into a normal
39 diet?
40 A. Normally, a normal diet in a feed lot contains roughly
41 about a source of energy; 80 per cent would be that source
42 of energy; that could be corn, could be sorghum, could be
43 barley, could be wheat, could be other cereals; whatever is
44 available at the best energy cost, that is what they will
45 have.
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47 Q. What about animals' own dung?
48 A. Own what?
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50 Q. Their own faeces, animals' faeces. They sometimes get
51 mixed up in the food for the cows; is that not right?
52 A. You can say that. It is rare. The feed goes into a
53 canal that is probably, I would say, close to a yard in
54 height, where the feed is placed.
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56 Q. No. Sorry, I am not talking about it getting in there by
57 accident; I am talking about when they are manufacturing
58 feed, some of the ingredients used are waste materials from
59 slaughterhouses, faeces from farms, and things like that?
60 A. That could potentially be the case; that is correct.
