Oh my God... they fed SKITTLES to cows.

[Ellipsis]

Who will kick my ass? Life will never be the same.

http://www.wkow.com/story/34288384/2017/01/18/hundreds-of-thousands-of-skittles-found-on-highway-in-dodge-county

[pinboy3niner]

1. Eyewitness News report:

"Oh, the combat bootmanity!"

[DeadLetterOffice]

2. Apparently this is a THING. And has been for 'decades'

Cash-strapped farmers feed candy to cows (from 2012)

Cows are being fed chocolate bars, gummy worms, ice cream sprinkles, marshmallows, bits of hard candy and even powdered hot chocolate mix, according to cattle farmers, bovine nutritionists and commodities dealers.

"It has been a practice going on for decades and is a very good way to for producers to reduce feed cost, and to provide less expensive food for consumers," said Ki Fanning, a livestock nutritionist with Great Plains Livestock Consulting, Inc. in Eagle, Neb.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/news/economy/farmers-cows-candy-feed/

[democratisphere]

3. It not bad enough that bovines and farm animals are treated horribly by farmers,

but know they are feeding the animals sugary garbage. This damn country is one hell of a mess; what a total disgrace.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. That's just one of the many multitudes of reasons why we quit eating meat 14 years ago.

Couldn't stand the way animals are treated, the garbage shoveled into them or the horrid effects on our environment, and our own health.

The only thing I miss at all is a good old nasty polish dog with like 875 awful calories. My hips and belly, however report that we are all good and well without them thankyouverymuch, and I have some work to do in that department anyway.

[MFM008]

6. agreed

I'm finding after my bariatric surgery I can only have very tender chicken.
Thats about the only meat I can get down.
I don't even try..........

[Skittles]

4. ME NO BOVINE FEED

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

[Warren DeMontague]

7. AND HERE I WAS GONNA OPEN A CAN OF WHOOPASS

BUT ALL I GOT WAS MILK

[Ellipsis]

10. It should be at least sweet and condensed...

Just checkin' to see if your still out there. I hadn't seen your posts in a while.

[HAB911]

8. 5 Surprising Things We Feed Cows

In addition to the old standbys of corn, soy, hay (and, uh, drugs)

Sawdust
Candy, wrapper and all
Chicken shit
Ground limestone
Crab guts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wisely banned the practice of feeding the remains of dead cows to living ones back in 1997. But the agency has never prohibited feeding those same remains to chickens and other poultry, nor does it currently prohibit feeding poultry litter to cattle. And so, thanks to this ghoulish quirk of our Rube Goldberg-like regulatory mechanism—call it the Feedlot Feedback Loop, or maybe the Feedlot Feedback Loophole—cows are still at risk of consuming the suspect bovine proteins that inspired the 1997 ban in the first place.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Arby's once tested using sawdust in its beef

After serving it in selected restaurants, they dropped the idea.

[Ellipsis]

11. Oh my God... now the Martians are involved.

What sort of insidious evil plot is this?

http://wate.com/2017/01/21/mars-investigating-hundreds-of-thousands-of-skittles-said-to-be-intended-for-cattle/