Livestock Performance: Feeding Biotech Crops

Livestock Performance: Feeding Biotech Crops

To date, genetically enhanced plants in the marketplace that are used as feeds for livestock are based on producing insecticidal compounds or developing herbicide tolerance. Corn grain, whole plant green chop corn, corn silage, corn residue, soybeans, and soybean meal from the current genetically enhanced plants have been fed to chickens, sheep, beef cattle, and dairy cows and compared with fee...

Feeding Livestock

CHEMISTS years ago developed methods by which they could analyze feeds and have the constituents sum to TOO percent. Chemists and physiologists concluded therefrom that protein, fats, carbohydrates, and certain mineral elements were the only nutrients animals required. Data from experiments made it clear, however, that the quality of the ration and its ability to promote growth could not be pre...

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Livestock Feeding Study

Biotech crops' seal of safety does not convince skeptics.

G enetically modified organisms (GMOs) have become nearly ubiquitous in U.S.-produced corn, soybeans, and canola, and more than twothirds of the processed foods Americans consume contain such ingredients. Government agencies and international bodies have repeatedly approved the foods for human consumption while arguing that such bioengineered crops help preserve the environment and could save m...