The pig eats the chicken, the chicken eats the pig, and you eat both.
The practice of using pig and chicken remains as animal fodder - banned by the EU in 2000 after the outbreak of BSE - may return, according to the Times. In particular, a minute from the European Economic and Social Committee suggest allowing chickens to be fed pig meal - and vice versa.
The paper says farmers are unhappy with the expense of disposing of carcasses, and scientists are carrying out tests to determine whether they can again be processed into feed.
"We will have to find out about the risks of influenza and salmonella being passed from pig to chicken, or vice versa," a bacteriologist at Aberdeen University tells the Times. " The biggest problem will be to win over public opinion." Judging by the comments already posted at the end of the article, he is right.
* This is an edited excerpt from the Wrap, our digest of the daily papers.
