What Did The Farmers Feed Their Cows To Get Them So Sick?
Well, in the 1800’s whiskey distilleries became very popular in the USA. The domestic liquor industry really took off in vengeance after the war of 1812 when our supply of whiskey was cut off from the British West Indies. Grains were needed to make whiskey. The by-product from fermenting the grain to make the alcohol, is this soft, pulpy mass of used grain in which most nutrition from the grain has been removed. What is left is spent grain called distillery slop. Unscrupulous farmers found it to be much cheaper and more convenient to feed cows this distillery slop. Indeed feeding the cows with this slop was cheaper and the output of milk from the cows was much higher. It was a good business to be in. This swill (partly liquid food) was given to the cows in the form of thin gruel. The swill was often smoking hot and it at once deranged the poor cow’s digestion; its continued use resulted in unhealthy cows producing unhealthy milk followed by the speedy death of the animal. Unsanitary Mi
