After an eight-year layoff, it looks like the FDA is back in the business of actually protecting consumers (instead of looking out for corporate interests).
A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice of feeding chicken feces and other poultry farm waste to cattle. McDonald's Corp., the nation's largest restaurant user of beef, also wants the FDA to prohibit the feeding of "poultry litter" to cattle. Using poultry litter increases the risk of cows becoming infected with mad cow disease,
Members of the coalition are threatening to file a lawsuit or to push for federal legislation establishing such a ban if the FDA doesn't act to do so in the coming months.
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