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Why do farmers feed their cattle cake and sweets? What is the impact on the animals’ health, the environment and the taste of our meat?

Why do farmers feed their cows sweets? What are the implications for the animals’ health, the environment and the taste of our meat?

From the mystery of a rural US highway covered in Skittles, to chocolate-flavoured steak selling for hundreds of dollars, we explore the impact of feeding cows the byproducts of human food production.

Plus, we take our own bag of treats onto the farm and discover cows have rather expensive tastes.

Presenter: Emily Thomas

(Picture: A cow eating a chocolate bar.)

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27 minutes

Last on

Mon 18 Sep 201703:32GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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