It would use poultry litter and meat and bone meal as fuel.

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It is usually transmitted between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed to other cattle.

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He also called for more inspections of cattle at the slaughterhouse and to ensure that the 1997 feed ban on ground bone meal is not being violated.

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The minister's predecessor, Edwin Poots, approved plans for a chicken litter incinerator which it is claimed will power 25, 000 homes by burning chicken waste and bone meal.

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It caused the French Government to ban meat and bone meal in animal feed, take T-bone steaks off menus and institute more stringent health tests for cattle.

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