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<pre>I agree about the dangers of feeding waste but sansa is quite different
from feeding meat meal back to the same animals or poultry manure to cows
and sheep. These ideas are asking for trouble as they create a loop for
possible infections. A good example of scientific hubris.

Sansa is different as it is conceivably a natural food for these
animals - certainly goat will eat olives and olive trees. Sansa does have
some feed value depending on the oil content - the energy value of oil is
high. The problem is that once the rumen has developed (that is when the
calf or lamb start to be weaned) the ability to digest a fatty diet is not
high so the sansa must be diluted with other feeds.

Of course this all assumes a dry sansa from an old style press or a
modern three phase. What will they do with the sloppy sansa from the two
phase centrifuges being installed in some Australian frantoio (for example
in Loxton in SA)?

My version of Cato mentions the watery waste being used as a
herbicide and insecticide but not the dry sansa. Maybe other Roman
agricultural writers or other translators have other ideas.

Cheers Brian Chatterton.
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