The phrase "ate feed" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the act of consuming animal feed, but without context, it is ambiguous and unclear.
Example: "The livestock ate feed from the trough."
Alternatives: "consumed feed" or "ingested feed".
label claim, which attests that meat certified by the Non-GMO Project came from animals that never ate feed containing genetically engineered ingredients like corn, soy and alfalfa.
— Nick Fox CBS News Japan has banned beef from cows that ate feed contaminated by radioactivity 500 times higher than normal levels.
Because Iraq did not grow whatever chickens ate, feed had to be imported, raising the price of local chicken.
Most commonly, they get it from eating feed that has been contaminated by infectious prions.
Over the last six months, about 5,000 pigs have eaten feed laced with By-O-Reg after being weaned from their mothers.
The next day, Rodney Brossart, the patriarch, discovered the cows and calves, he claims, eating feed and hay meant for his own cattle.
It is believed that cattle originally contracted the disease by eating feed made with tissue from sheep infected with a related neurological ailment, scrapie.
On Monday, Tyson Foods acknowledged that it had sent nearly 200 hogs that may have eaten feed containing melamine to a pork-processing plant.
The sheep, imported from Belgium, were destroyed because health officials suspected they had eaten feed contaminated with tissue carrying mad cow disease.
But scientists believe that cattle originally contracted the disease by eating feed made with tissue from sheep infected with a related neurological ailment, scrapie.
But if sheep spread the disease by eating the dropped placentas of infected ewes, and cows spread the disease by eating feed made from infected cows, how do deer and elk spread it?
