Taste the Rainbow.

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Not at all worrying.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38730941/some-us-farmers-are-feeding-cows-skittles


"Officials believe a lorry load of Skittles found spilt on a road in America were intended as "cattle feed".
Hundreds of thousands of the sweets were discovered on a motorway in Wisconsin after falling out of a truck.
Mars, the company which makes Skittles, says it does not know why this batch was potentially going to be used as livestock feed and is investigating.
It is reported some farmers give their livestock the sweets because it is cheaper than corn."

 

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They must have landed over in Jamaica to .........

 

[TeeDee]

I just find it kind of shocking to hear what some people think is ok to feed animals. I mean why not just inject pure sugar via an I/V drip.

 

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I've just read this article, they saying they're ok to be used as cattle feed

Although Skittles are packed with high fructose corn syrup, as so many foods are, they are nonetheless cheaper than the real thing and surprisingly more nutritious, at least according to some experts. Joseph Watson, owner of United Livestock Commodities, said that sweets like Skittles have “a higher ratio of fat [than] actually feeding them straight corn.” Skittles also may be a greener feed product than corn, simply because they would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. Instead, these candies, edible but not nearly up to the mass production standards of a multinational corporation, are converted into animal mass, meat and fat.