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Would You Eat Food Made From Animal Feed?

SodaHead Food 2012/07/30 02:58:00
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Health advocates are always looking for special ingredients to make meals more nutritious. But will they be able to convince Americans to eat food made from animal feed? Yes, you read that right: animal feed.

Apparently, the stuff left over from turning corn into fuel ethanol makes a very healthy flour substitute. It’s protein-packed and full of fiber. Sounds great, right? There are just a few catches. It smells “like a saloon.” On it’s own it “tastes like coarse sawdust.” And people just can’t get over the fact that it’s most often fed to cows and pigs.

Padu Krishnan, a food scientist and professor at South Dakota State University, admits that dried distillers’ grain (or DDG) faces a “barrier of perception.” But he’s doing his best to convince people to give it a try. For nearly 20 years he’s been refining recipes and slipping small amounts of DDG into cookies, pizza dough, and bread, which he then feeds to students, friends, and family members. And according to his test subjects, when combined with other ingredients, you can hardly taste it.

Still, Jacquelynn O'Palka, chair of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, believes that DDG won’t go mainstream without the help of a celebrity. "You clearly would need to get a Hollywood star or a sports figure, someone really wonderful, to wolf down DDG cookies," she said.

So, what about you SodaHeads? Would you eat food made from animal feed?

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Read More: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023039...

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  • Christopher Kirchen 2012/07/30 12:47:06
    Yes
    Christopher Kirchen
    +6
    I don't know why not; the feed in your picture there is just grain, and bread and other things are made with all sorts of grains.

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  • SOUL4REAL 2012/07/30 16:14:35
    No
    SOUL4REAL
    Hell Naw! What a crazy azz question to ask! Is it coming down to that?? What's next a "Food" shortage?? We already have a water shortage!
  • Dolly 2012/07/30 16:14:35
    No
    Dolly
  • LucidLoon Dolly 2012/07/31 03:01:01
    LucidLoon
    Pet food isn't really what they meant by animal feed...
  • jmc07806-PWCM-JLA 2012/07/30 15:49:23
    Yes
    jmc07806-PWCM-JLA
    +2
    Why not the animals already eat what is considered our feed.
  • Tunnel Vision 2012/07/30 15:27:59
    Yes
    Tunnel Vision
    +2
    Its corn and most of what we eat has some corn in it in one form or another.
  • overdog001 2012/07/30 15:25:16
    Yes
    overdog001
    +1
    Eating what animals ate first is how we figured out which berries weren't poisonous. They eat more healthy than we do; we could learn from their example.
  • Twinky 2012/07/30 15:13:12 (edited)
    Yes
    Twinky
    +2
    Come on guys, if you eat high-fructose corn syrup, or McDonalds you can eat this! This will be better for you than that nasty nasty stuff.

    hfcs
  • the judgebigdogeagle 2012/07/30 15:11:54
    Yes
    the judgebigdogeagle
    Its a natural filler,not some chemical enhancement.
  • phil 2012/07/30 14:51:39
    No
    phil
    Not my cup of tea
  • NarcolepticGoat 2012/07/30 14:48:27
    Yes
    NarcolepticGoat
    +1
    IOW would I eat something made from corn flour? Sure.
  • Jeremy 2012/07/30 14:45:51
    Yes
    Jeremy
    +1
    It probably goes without saying that the people who vote yes on this one are likely already much healthier than those who vote no. I'll be back on this one to see the final demographics.
  • mac9 2012/07/30 14:34:41
    No
    mac9
    Why?
  • ebitnet 2012/07/30 14:31:36
    Yes
    ebitnet
    "Solyent Green is people!"
  • smitty 2012/07/30 14:28:33
    Yes
    smitty
    +1
    I eat dog treats. My dog gets half and I eat the other half. If it taste good I'll eat it.
  • firelooker smitty 2012/07/30 22:58:40
    firelooker
    +1
    We ate 'em when i was a kid.
  • john doe 2012/07/30 14:22:14 (edited)
    Yes
    john doe
    Eventually you will have no choice, dinner is served sheeple.....lol. the government owns corn, might as well feed it to people, it can make a ton of money that way.
  • ProudCommie 2012/07/30 13:58:07 (edited)
    Yes
    ProudCommie
    Sure I would, if they can find a way to cover up the stink and horrible taste so you can't tell the difference.
  • Nekosarethebest 2012/07/30 13:46:05
    Yes
    Nekosarethebest
    Most things remind me of it anyway....
  • Jiorgia 2012/07/30 13:37:28
    Yes
    Jiorgia
    What you mean oats, seeds and grains, those are fed to animals too you know.

    I eat alot of the so called 'superfoods' but dont live on the stuff.
    i wouldn't be afraid to try it and if i liked it i would continue to eat it.
  • BoardinOK 2012/07/30 13:37:11
    Yes
    BoardinOK
    +2
    It's wheat. They also feed animals lots of corn, black-eyed peas, etc. and we eat that too.
  • Seonag 2012/07/30 13:14:19
    No
    Seonag
    Not this American! I've seen how much of the feed is made and I have no interest in eating any of it.
  • Arse-Whole Seonag 2012/07/30 17:11:22
    Arse-Whole
    If you had any idea what the most common foods you eat went through to get to your table (even the organic ones) then you'd starve in a week.
  • Kerri 2012/07/30 13:02:44 (edited)
    Yes
    Kerri
    +1
    Grain byproducts are used in foodstuffs every day...so why not.

    Google how margerine is made....YUK !

    In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method for preparing processed edible oil having an enriched buttery flavor and a low trans-fatty acid content according to the present invention may comprise the following steps:
    1) deguming crude edible oil;
    2) neutralizing the degumed edible oil followed by washing and drying;
    3) bleaching the neutralized edible oil;
    4) deodorizing the bleached edible oil by stripping with steam under reduced pressure; and
    5) introducing hydrogen gas to the deodorized edible oil in the presence of a catalyst at the elevated temperature in a reaction vessel, followed by cooling the mixture, and removing the catalyst.

    Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/a...
  • BoardinOK Kerri 2012/07/30 13:35:49
    BoardinOK
    +2
    Yup. My mother-in-law always gets mad because I buy real butter. I told her that I don't believe the whole, "butter is one molecule from being plastic....e-mail" but it ain't far off. lol
  • Christopher Kirchen 2012/07/30 12:47:06
    Yes
    Christopher Kirchen
    +6
    I don't know why not; the feed in your picture there is just grain, and bread and other things are made with all sorts of grains.
  • The heartless 2012/07/30 12:45:28
    No
    The heartless
    NO...
  • yogamartial 2012/07/30 12:30:39
    No
    yogamartial
    No but I bet we all do and know f'all about it.
  • Redneck 2012/07/30 12:30:26
    Yes
    Redneck
    +5
    It's just grain. Animals eat the same stuff we do. As a matter of fact, I've helped my grand dad make homony out of whole corn that came from a feed store.
  • BLUEDAIMOND 2012/07/30 12:16:33
    Yes
    BLUEDAIMOND
    +3
    Better than pink slime.....
  • Crystal... BLUEDAI... 2012/07/30 18:20:38
    CrystalBall
    +1
    not much better.. but funny!
  • the fuze 2012/07/30 11:42:03
    No
    the fuze
    But who knows? I probably do anyway... just don't tell me.
  • Crystal... the fuze 2012/07/30 18:20:53
    CrystalBall
    Sorry.. but you do!.. lol
  • the fuze Crystal... 2012/08/01 10:42:52
    the fuze
    I said don't tell me!!!

    Next you'll be telling me Soylent Green is people!!!
  • Asa Core 2012/07/30 11:03:40
    No
    Asa Core
    NO
  • bettyboop 2012/07/30 10:53:04
    Yes
    bettyboop
    I would rather eat that than insects, or other nasty stuff like I see on Bizarre Foods.
  • LucidLoon bettyboop 2012/07/31 02:59:54
    LucidLoon
    Oh man, dry roasted chocolate covered crickets are amazing.
  • FELINE GESTURES IN THE DARK 2012/07/30 10:40:53
    Yes
    FELINE GESTURES IN THE DARK
    I think I am already eating them . Nice & normal . I have no problem . Of course , I don't eat like they eat ; only after some procedures ( cooking , oiling , mixing ,etc. ) .
  • Lou 2012/07/30 10:34:53
    Yes
    Lou
    Sure why not!
    We eat hamburgers with couch stuffing in them, ammonia infused meat , bread with cellulose wood pulp, blueberry muffins where the blueberries are corn(ha they sneak corn into all our foods!), apple pies where the apples are actually potatoes, let's not forget the Twinkies, etc...
    Hey half the time we don't even know what we're eating, if it tastes good well...
  • Noobcake Lou 2012/07/30 10:53:05
    Noobcake
    +1
    Don't mistake this for scepticism - I'm genuinely curious - but where did you find this out from? I am, quite selfishly, hoping this is an American-only thing. *scared*
  • Crystal... Noobcake 2012/07/30 18:22:37
    CrystalBall
    +1
    Noobcake.. it is mostly in America but a lot of developed countries that follow the Western diet will also be subjected to odd things in our food and we will never know.

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