What poor countries do now as Environment Protection Agency (EPA) of America declared hay as a pollutant and risk for health of people and environment? Third world countries dairy farms having horses and cattles for business purposes they normally cannot afford other special fodder for their animals they just eat to animals hay as basic food. If government of their countries also declared hay as pollutant then survival of animals dependent on hay would be difficult.
Hay is grass, legume or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder particularly for grazing livestock such as cattle, horse, goats, and sheep. Hay is also fed to pets such as rabbits and guinea pigs.
Hay is fed when or where there is not enough pasture or rangeland on to graze an animal, when grazing is unavailable due to weather (such as during the winter) or when lush pasture by itself is too rich for the health of the animal. It is also fed during times when an animal is unable to access pasture, such as when animals are kept in a stable or barn.
Most animals are fed hay in two daily feedings, morning and evening. However, this schedule is more for the convenience of humans, as most grazing animals on pasture naturally consume fodder in multiple feedings throughout the day. Some animals, especially those being raised for meat, may be given enough hay that they simply are able to eat all day. Other animals, especially those that are ridden or driven as working animals, are only free to eat when not working, and may be given a more limited amount of hay to prevent them from getting too fat. The proper amount of hay and the type of hay required varies somewhat between different species. Some animals are also fed concentrated feeds such as grain or vitamin supplements in addition to hay. In most cases, hay or pasture forage must make up 50% or more of the diet by weight.

“Now that EPA has declared hay a pollutant, every farmer and rancher that stores hay, or that leaves a broken hay bale in the field, is potentially violating EPA rules and subject to an EPA enforcement action,” responded Mike Callicrate, a Kansas cattle feeder, “How far are we going to let this agency go before we stand up and do something about it?”
Callicrate is permitted to handle 12,000 cattle at a time in his feedlot, which is considered a small to mid-sized feedlot in an industry now dominated by mega-feedlots such as those owned by the world’s largest beef packer – JBS-Brazil – with a one-time capacity of over 900,000 cattle; or the other mega-feedlot that also feeds hundreds of thousands of cattle at a time and is owned by the nation’s second-largest beef packer – Cargill; or the other handful of mega feedlots with capacities of hundreds of thousands of cattle such as those owned by Cactus Feeders, Inc. and Friona Industries.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, animals raised on industrialized farms produce about 788,000 pounds of manure per day. That’s a lot of raw sewage, and none of it ends up in treatment plants. A lot of this hazardous material is instead either sprayed onto fields or funnelled into huge lagoons. Too often, it ends up in drinking water, groundwater, oceans, rivers, and streams. The results of this, of course, can be downright catastrophic.
It’s no secret that factory farms are bad for our planet. And when it comes into water, the effects of these massive operations can be especially devastating both in terms of the pollution caused by toxic runoff and the waste of one of our most precious and essential natural resources.
Worldwide, over 20 million tons of phosphorus is currently released into the ocean each year, creating unwanted algal blooms and harming fish.
Phosphate is the building block and fuel of all living cells in plants and animals. Like oil, it is a limited resource concentrated in very few countries, but unlike oil, there are no substitutes.
Around 80% of the phosphate in animal feed is in a form that is unavailable to the animal and is therefore wasted in manure. The phosphate in manure washes into groundwater and downstream waterways, causing algal blooms and reducing oxygen in the water, harming marine life. It is a growing problem in many countries.
Alfalfa, barley, Birds foot trefoil, cale, canola, turnip, Bermuda grass, brome, false oat grass, heath grass, orchard grass, rye grass, oat, millet and wheat etc. are common plants grown especially for fodder. And all causing different form of allergies to animals and indirectly causing pollution and increment in carbon level.