Remember that one time you and your frat buddies got really loaded and decided to put beer in the dog's water bowl? Dude! Bro! That was totally outrageous!
Just think of how awesome that'd be if you did it with a bunch of cows!
Of course I'm joking, so you can hold off on that tersely worded email to PETA. However, some UK farmers really are feeding beer to their cattle -- and apparently it's good for them.
The idea comes from Greene King, the brewery behind Old Speckled Hen and Abbot Ale. They've started recycling beer dregs (from the bottom of kegs and pint glasses) into alcoholic (yet somehow non-harmful) animal feed. That feed is then used by local farmers who've noticed "rather a lot of happy cows" out in the pasture.
Not only is this a novel way to cut back on waste, but I'm sure it has drastically reduced the never-ending boredom of bovine life. Everyone wins.
[Via Treehugger]
Related Story
Filed under: Food
No comments:
Post a Comment