Plastic in animal feed

[alicecrinnigan]

Hi All,

I'm a journalist researching a story about hidden plastic that farmers / smallholders have been finding in their animal feed.

I was wondering if any of you had noticed this issue? Or if you could keep a look out for it... It's been found in feed that is made from recycled confectionery / bakery waste, which hasn't been properly decontaminated.

Farmers have been finding it in both pig and chicken pellets.

Please do let me know if you've experienced this issue and maybe we can have a chat?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[Werzle]

Nothing compared to the plastic the general public throw out of there cars all along the highway which then finds its way into our fields. I wonder how many of the children that skipped school or college to protest at climate change will be flying off on there summer holiday in the next few weeks polluting as they go.

 

[___\0/___]

Hi new member Alice, no I have never seen or fed plastic contaminated feed.

 

[ollie989898]

Very rare occurrence, only ever in bread or biscuit waste. Anything that turned up on farm with plastic in would have to be sent away to landfill, I wouldn't pay for it.

 

[___\0/___]

Is this how kinder eggs are produced?

 

[john1968]

this sounds like a story the vegans would start just to rubbish the hard work farmers do

 

[Timbo]

Quite often bits of bag in bread n biscuit meal.

Some say it helps the rumen digest.

 

[tepapa]

Can't see a positive outcome for farmers from this article.
Yet again bad farmer feeding plastic to animals when all he's done is buy feed for them.

 

[teslacoils]

Is this for the bbc? Can't think why any farmer would ever speak to them at all. Ever. May as well hand them a knife and show them your back.

 

[john1968]

we feed the chickens on Paxo and they are going down well on the ready stuffed market

 

[Highland Mule]

Find lots of steel, plastic and dog faeces rubbish in my sheep feed. Grass, grown in my field next to the roads with the contamination put there by the public.

 

[bobk]

Hi All,

I'm a journalist researching a story about hidden plastic that farmers / smallholders have been finding in their animal feed.

I was wondering if any of you had noticed this issue? Or if you could keep a look out for it... It's been found in feed that is made from recycled confectionery / bakery waste, which hasn't been properly decontaminated.

Farmers have been finding it in both pig and chicken pellets.

Please do let me know if you've experienced this issue and maybe we can have a chat?

Many thanks in advance!

Hello Alice

I believe you work for the BBC , so that's you fini................

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[Dr. Alkathene]

Facebook profile makes interesting reading......

 

[bobk]

Facebook profile makes interesting reading......

Lesbian , Vegan, Socialist .

 

[ollie989898]

Anyone working for the BBC should be treated with contempt if you ask me. Anyone with principles should surely refuse to take their money, it is a corrupt and over-inflated organisation and I detest having to pay for it.

 

[teslacoils]

To think once the BBC was respected. Now it's agenda isn't even hidden. BBC website, including the business pages, now read like a hybrid between Cosmopolitan and the Guardian.

 

[manhill]

To think once the BBC was respected. Now it's agenda isn't even hidden. BBC website, including the business pages, now read like a hybrid between Cosmopolitan and the Guardian.[/QUOTE

Trash like most newspapers these days. Journalists can't even spell or use correct grammer.
Looking at a copy of The Daily Telegraph from 1911, that's what I call a newspaper. It's crammed with information and very little pictorial adverts, well worth the penny for the 20 pages. Maybe today's journalists should read it now and then and benchmark their writing against it.

 

[Kidds]

Trash like most newspapers these days. Journalists can't even spell or use correct grammer.
Looking at a copy of The Daily Telegraph from 1911, that's what I call a newspaper. It's crammed with information and very little pictorial adverts, well worth the penny for the 20 pages. Maybe today's journalists should read it now and then and benchmark their writing against it.

I bet they know how to quote a post properly though.

 

[Daniel]

I mean I could tell you something about animal feed, but having done a tiny bit of research on you, you seem to be a fan of Ash "i'm literally a communist' Sarkar and also virulently anti-conservative, so I won't, make your own stories up.

 

[milkloss]

make your own stories up.

Don’t think there’ll be any trouble in that front!