E-85 More ‘Benefits’ coming to light

And they said “don’t worry the DGSS can be feed to livestock”. Well the feedlot owners don’t agree!

“Feedlot operators and farmers are feeding livestock anything they can… besides corn,” Kevin Kerr told The 5 early this morning. Kevin has embarked on his second

“These cows are eating leftover trail mix from factory floors, old chicken guts from the local poultry processing plant, leftover chocolate scrapings from Hershey’s and burned cookies from Keebler… anything but corn and the legendary DGSS (an ethanol byproduct that can be fed to livestock). Farmers have been telling me that [tag]DGSS[/tag] lacks the sugar and nutrients needed to fatten up hogs and cattle… not to mention… animals don’t seem to like the taste.”

“Garbage in, garbage out, as they say,” concluded Kevin. Here at The 5, we’re anxious to see how this will affect livestock prices in 2007 and 2008. “If your steak at Ruth Chris tastes like burnt cookies, you’ll know why.”

Probably filed this one under “Rants” but this one stands on its own. Even our cows are going to pay the price for E85 / Frank

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