Ethanol waste: Good for Rover?

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Posted by Tom Philpott at 4:19 PM on 06 Oct 2008

The pet-food industry takes a serious look at distillers grains

Should the mush left over after the ethanol process -- known as distillers grains -- be fed to farm animals?

There's been little real debate around that question, even though a) heavy use of distillers grains as cow feed has been linked to deadly E. Coli 0157H7 outbreaks; and b), the mush has been shown to contain all manner of residues from the ethanol process, including industrial chemicals and antibiotics.

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