Well from my research I have found that some people are
for it and some against it.
Cattle are fed corn for a multitude of reasons. Cattle
love eating corn, and prefer eating corn over grass. Corn provides cattle with
a means to obtain more energy from their diet which they use to help them grow.
Cattle eating strictly grass often cannot obtain enough energy to meet their
needs, growth and thus live their lives malnourished. Secondly, cattle are fed
corn because feeding corn produces high quality, tender, juicy, and flavorful
beef. Grass fed beef often has gamey "off flavours" and substantially
less marbling which make the steaks you buy extremely tough when cooked, and
can be comparable to eating a piece of leather.
Cattle fed corn have significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions than
any form of grass fed program. Sounds
great but just wait the real truth is that cattle were designed to eat grass.
The diet is primarily starch based (corn) is about as unnatural as you can get,
and is intensely unhealthy for the animal as well as consumers of food products
from those animals. Corn has been introduced to the feed to fatten them up
faster; hormones and protein supplements. Also, the corn that they are feeding
these cattle’s is genetically modified. I’m
sure cattle farmers would argue that without antibiotics and pesticides their
cows would get sick in such close quarters and they can’t make a profit by
scaling back or allowing cattle to feed in an open pasture.
This is when we
need to vote with our dollars and buy meat that is better for us.
If the demand is there, the industry will adapt and
change the supply.You get to vote for the food you want three times a day.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/29/grass.grain.beef.cookinglight/index.html
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