Mars investigating hundreds of thousands of Skittles said to be intended for cattle
Source: Wate ABC
NEW YORK (AP) A mysterious Skittles spill on a rural highway in Wisconsin is taking another twist, with Mars Inc. saying it doesnt know why the discarded candy might have been headed to become cattle feed.
The case began when a Wisconsin sheriff posted on Facebook this week that hundreds of thousands of Skittles had been found spilled on a highway. Later, he updated the post to say the candy had fallen off a truck on its way to be cattle feed.
A variety of food byproducts are commonly used for animal feed, and Mars says it has procedures for discarding foods for that purpose. However, the company says the Skittles in question came from a factory that doesnt sell unused products for feed.
Schmidt said one of his deputies came across the spill and sent him photos, which he posted on Facebook. He said the Skittles spilled from a box that started to disintegrate in the rain, and about half of them got out. The Skittles on the ground did not have the standard letter S on them, he said
Read more: http://wate.com/2017/01/21/mars-investigating-hundreds-of-thousands-of-skittles-said-to-be-intended-for-cattle/
Candy as cattle feed? Makes you wonder what else they are giving livestock to eat.
keithbvadu2
(36,750 posts)ck4829
(35,042 posts)This is an interesting twist though.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Kinda makes a strong case for being a vegan. I try to buy meat directly from the source but you never really know. The same can be said of processed foods as well.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)If being vegan doesn't fit.
eggplant
(3,911 posts)Cows eat grass, too, and that's not particularly good for humans to eat either. The cows DO process it, you know.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)We do and can elect not to eat candy that doesn't have any real nutritional value.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)Lots of protein in cottage cheese and yogurt, but I can't see what nutritional value Skittles would provide.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)which they can get from the sugar. Even if cows produce the fat in milk from non-fat molecules, they'll need a digestible source of carbon and hydrogen for that.
Ellen Forradalom
(16,159 posts)will KICK THEIR ASS.
oh YES INDEED.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)True Dough
(17,301 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,750 posts)Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)mwooldri
(10,302 posts)What were in those discarded Skittles? Gelatin?
If you feed cows cow products, they go mad. This leads to mad cow disease. If those diseased cows enter the human food chain, a few people develop new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It's the reason that people from the UK who lived there in the 1980s and early 1990s cannot donate blood in the USA.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)not gelatin. And while there seems to be controversy about E120 colouring in red Skittles (ie cochineal from insects), they are claimed as 'suitable for vegetarians', so they don't have animal-derived gelatin in them.