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Not directly like other carnivores do. However, they have been fed animal by-products such as fishmeal, processed slaughterhouse protein and bone meal and chicken and hatchery waste. Though some form of protein is essential to cattle nutrition requirements, animal waste and slaughterhouse waste is not a natural source of protein for cattle. The primary reason cattle (particularly calves being creep-fed and lactating cows) are fed this form of protein is to either increase weight gain quicker, or to provide a cheap source of protein for lactating cows that cannot get 99% of their nutrients on pasture. For instance, this pertains to lactating cows or first-calf heifers that have calved in late fall or the winter, and cannot be grazed on pasture because of the cold and snow. Lactating cows and first-calf heifers that have calved in the spring, however, do not need this "cheap" source of protein. Cattle that are being finished in the feedlot are also fed these animal by-products along with their grain, to increase weight gain over a shorter period of time.
Lately, however, most of these animal by-products have been banned due to the BSE scare that occured in 2003, due to the suspicions that these animal by-products that were fed to cattle contain these deadly and virtually untraceable prions. There are more strict traceability legislation for cattle in Canada than there is in the USA, and in Canada, there is even stricter prohibition of feeding cattle animal by-products than in the USA. (Ironically, it wasn't a Canadian-born cow with BSE that made the USA shut the border on Canada: it was an American-born cow.)
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