EU, and to ban the use of meat in animal-feed for cattle.

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They also want to slaughter horses disposed of by racetracks, rodeos, horse breeders and owners struggling in the recession a sizeable surplus market that has made the actual raising of horses as meat animals (similar to cattle) completely unnecessary in the U.S. for decades.

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Corn is what feeds the chickens, the pigs, the cattle - that gives us much of our meat.

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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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Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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France, which has banned the sale of T-bone steaks and all animal feed made from ground-up cattle, so called meat and bonemeal, had called for a complete ban on the produce in an effort to avoid isolation within the union.

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