Candy-fed Cows

Cash-strapped farmers feed candy to cows (CNN Money article 10/10/12)

This is udderly ridiculous.  Ha ha.

Apparently, this practice has been going on for decades.  Do cows that are fed gummy worms, chocolate bars, ice cream sprinkles, marshmallows, hot chocolate mix, crumbled cookies and hard candy taste sweeter than corn-fed cows??? 

Also, ". . . the sugar in ice cream sprinkles seems to increase milk production by three pounds per cow per day."  What????