France: 20 years after the ban, the return of animal meal

From next week, it will be possible, in principle, to feed poultry and pigs with processed animal protein (PAT), according to a text published on August 18 in the Official Journal of the EU. And this, two decades after the European ban, in 2001, of all animal meal intended for breeding, in the wake of the mad cow crisis, which has permanently traumatized consumers. Farmed fish and pets could already be fed with these meals, parts of crushed carcasses (muzzles, legs, bones, etc.) from healthy animals. The ban remains valid for ruminants and herbivores: cattle, of course, but also goats and sheep. Indeed, this is not a return to the situation that prevailed in the 1990s, when the bones of sick, infected or dead cattle were crushed to feed flocks of the same species - leading to the spread of the disease. bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the human variant of which, Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, could be transmitted to consumers. "A little gore" "At the time, animal meal was a bit ...