What's wrong with corn-fed beef?!
When they are fed an unnatural diet it usually leads to a more acidic rumen which leads to bacteria that are resistant to lower pH levels. In turn these animals must be routinely medicated with antibiotics to fight infection.
Answers: Cattle are suited to eat a grass-based diet.
When they are fed an unnatural diet it usually leads to a more acidic rumen which leads to bacteria that are resistant to lower pH levels. In turn these animals must be routinely medicated with antibiotics to fight infection.
I haven't heard anything wrong
The main reason: The great majority of readily available corn in the US and many surrounding friendly territories is genetically modified. This corn contains synthetic chemicals, for one, which damage nerve tissue, kill livers and kidneys, and spit on hearts, blood streams and brains. Also, there are almost always proteins present in this sort of crop that act as literal poisons; proteins not found on this side of nature's globe. : ) (Non-earth-friendly, not usable, bla bla bla.)
Plus, were those animals REALLY built to eat corn? Corn is hard, yo... come on, now.
Then again, if you have to eat it out of availability, eat less, be happy with what you've been given.
To me, not a thing. It still tastes great with A-1.
nothing, what could be wrong with it?
ur eating a dead animal
None
Many USDA Prime rated beef is corn-fed.
the "horror" story posted that "frankenstein" corn is full of chemicals is wrong. Plants do not manufacturing synthetic chemicals by themselves. Nothing that growns in plants is "synthetic" despite what the vegetarian "Chicken Littles" want you to think.
Meat from cows that are grass-fed is naturally more nutritious, lower in fat and calories and can actually help lower cholesterol according to this site:
http://www.eatwild.com/healthbenefits.ht...
The reason is that cows are not made to eat a corn-based diet, they have multiple stomachs that are adept to eating a grass-fed diet and have millions of years of evolution behind them - and man has only been feeding them corn and trying to fatten them at warp speed very, very recently in comparison. Cows cannot digest corn as well as they can digest grass, and as others pointed out, it causes illness, numerous imbalances and problems within their bodies. And of course they are medicated and "treated". Plus it makes them gassy and methane from farmed animals contributes to global warming, and that may seem silly but I've seen research that the contribution to global warming is pretty hefty.
cows ruminate, corn requires acid to break it down.
The 2 processes are completely different and a cow is wholey unsuited to a corn diet.
The reason corn-fed diets works for cows is that they will be killed at 2 years old. A naural lifespan of 20 years coudl not be acheived on a corn-diet.
Its like feeding someone McDonalds every day since they are born. Sure, they can live on it for a few weeks but not a natural 80 years.
Basically, cows are gradually dieing on a corn-fed diet, its just that the slaughterhouse gets to them before the on-set of nutritian-deficiency illness.
Maggie, if you want to know about the contribution farming makes to global wamring then may I suggest you check out the reports by DEFRA. The summaries were in Farming Link ( July 2007 i think ). From memory I believe that cattle are responsible for 70% of agricuture CO2 emissions and yet produce only 15% of the food. They are also responsible for 90% of UK NO2 emissions which has a 900 ( yep 900 ) fold increase in global warming impact that CO2. The figures are hurrendous - and that figures published by the farming community !!
The reports are available via Defra's website at:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/
Here is a typical one:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/science/Project_...
They make very dry ( read "boring" ) reading but do contain very interesting facts.
EG, did you know cattle in the UK produce 1070 kilotonnes of methane ?
However, chicken manage to produce over 1.4 MILLION tonnes of methane.
Here are the methan outputs in Ktonnes of methane:
Dairy cattle 435
Other cattle excl. calves 632
Calves 172
Dry sows 34
Sows plus litters 8
Fatteners 20-130 kg 167
Weaners (<20 kg) 37
Poultry 1,407
Sheep etc. 669
Total 3,563 tonnes of methane.
Now that, by anyones standard, is a lot of wind !!
nutritionally not much difference
but taste there is a HUGE difference between feed lot (aka corn fed) cattle and range raised cattle...
also morally a huge difference too
Nothing and if you are a flexatarian veg you can eat corn fed beef in moderation.
Nothing. Lean, corn fed, beef is very healthy if eaten in moderation.