1. Cattle eat grass, and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass. 2. Cattle eat its stalks. 3. Cattle eat grass, and fields of grass grow only when they get plenty of sunlight. 4. He also discusses conditions on feedlots, where cattle eat appalling things. 5. In areas of South Texas, some ranchers are cutting down hackberry trees so cattle can eat the leaves. 6. Microbiologists at Cornell University have found that what cattle eat can affect the safety of hamburgers, opening a whole new path to controlling food-borne illnesses. 7. Others are burning the thorns from prickly pears so cattle can eat the cactus. 8. Ranchers along the border from El Paso to Zapata counties have taken to burning the thorns off the cactus so their cattle can eat the juicy plant. 9. Scientists believe the so-called mad cow disease results when cattle eat feed made from the brains or spinal cords of sheep suffering from scrapie. 10. The surviving cattle eat twice as much grain as usual, their antidote to the supercold. |