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Wildlife Services, a ridiculous misnamed agency of the federal government kills animals on behalf of the livestock industry, particularly the beef/cattle industry. There were 1.6 million animals killed by this agency in 2006. "A record number of gray wolves (278)...were killed in numbers that are up more than six-fold since 1996."
" 'Beef, it's what's for dinner' is the very thing that is killing our wild buffalo, wild horses, prairie dogs, wolves, and the countless other plant and animal species that suffer to appease the fears and greed of livestock producers."
A five year research programme by the government and industry will look into the potential of perennial ryegrass in obtaining higher content of omega-3 rich polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA). With the benefits passed on to humans via beef cattle.
When it comes to contaminated spinach, the trail ultimately leads back to a seemingly unrelated food industry — beef and dairy cattle. Find out how U.S. policy of grain feeding cattle (instead of hay) is tainting produce farms downstream.