Cow's To Lose Last Drink

Seems that for years…unbeknownst to me at least…breweries have been selling their left over grain to the cattle industry as live stock feed.

They take the barley, wheat and whatever, boil it, mash it, mix it in a pot and do all the magic that they do to make beer. They left over grains, hundreds of millions of tons of it, is sold to farmers all over the country.  They, in their turn, feed it to the cattle, who enjoy a last drink or two before continuing on their journey to the table.

Well drink the barley no more! The FDA has passed a regulation that all such grains will have to be cleaned, and packaged and etc etc before the cows can get it to eat . . . you know because eating grass off the ground is so sanitary. The costs will likely be prohibitive and the spent grains dumped?

Who loses? The COWS! No more grains steeped in beer and the last drunk cow is now a thing of the past.

Any excuse to use this picture . . . .