Grass-Fed Beef vs Corn-Fed Beef?
Acidosis, bloat, liver abcesses, and as as a result, having to be fed medicated feed to prevent these disorders. This is what all feedlot managers have to deal with when finishing cattle on a "hot-diet" or a diet of 90% grain (be it corn, barley, wheat or soy). Manure build up, soil erosion, dust, methane and carbon emissions, as well as emissions from machinery are also environmental concerns and risks for feeding cattle grain.
Why do we do it? Profit. It's quicker and easier to fatten cattle up on grain than it is on grass.
Plus (though I don't really agree with this) you use less land raising cattle on grain than on grass. The latter I really don't see too clearly though, as with the current mob-grazing techniques being used and managed make it easier to stock more cattle per acre than how much feed per animal a feedlot could generate per acre. But that's just my opinion.
It has been shown in several research studies that cattle fattened in a commercial feedlot are essentially "fed to death", and that if they were to keep eating such an extremely high protein diet, they would die a very early death. I wrote a Hub about the advantages of grass fed beef over feedlot beef here: hubpages.com/hub/Is-Eating-Beef-Bad-For-The.
I doubt there is much I could add to this. However, there is a assembly line mentality to agriculture these days that cause agribusinessmen to look for cheaper, faster ways to fatten an animal, even if it is unnatural. Honestly, their pocketbooks get fatter and so do Americans.
They are killing us for a profit. Who are they? ADM, ConAgra, Monsanto, Tyson, etc...
Oops, I missed this question when you posted it, but just wrote a hub for the current hubmob that you might find answers this one as well:hubpages.com/hub/The-Benefits-of-Grass-Fed.
Corn is not something that a cow would eat if a cow were let free to roam. So why do we feed cows corn? Because it's cheap and because the government has paid farmers to grow excesses of corn.
Grass-fed cows are following a more natural cycle by eating their traditional food-source. Thus, the meat from these cows is much less "messed around with. " So, if you're looking to eliminate as many chemicals as you can from your diet, grass-fed is the way to go.
If you want Beef that you know everything that they ate, go and find your local 4-H or FFA clubs and buy a steer from them. The kids raise their animals from 2-8 months then sell them at an auction, also the meat is always good because kids are usually only raising at the most 2 steers.
I did a search just to make sure I was right about this, and it confirmed my idea. Corn is a member of the grass family. Corn was wild at one time, I suppose, and I also suppose that if a wild bovine met a patch of wild corn, the animal just might consume it.
It all depends on what type of cattle you are talking about. Beef cattle fed on grass tend to be more tough,because they don't have marble in the meat from eating corn products. Dairy cattle fed grass without a corn or grain supplement will not produce as much milk.
That is why you see beef cattle in a feed yard and milk cows confined to a dairy setting. As far as risks are concerned feeding corn to livestock,is no different then me eating corn off the stock. Mostly a big myth created by people who are vegetarians.
Any time you buy beef in the store it will most likely be corn or grain fed. Any time you buy milk in the store it will most likely be from dairy cattle fed grain,corn or silage.
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Decided to market the Beefmaster, his family’s breed. €œWe learned that just because we liked our beef didn’t mean that anyone else in the world did, or even really cared what grass-fed beef was,â€? Tom Lasater said.
€œFor the first 10 years it was a real uphill battle. Lasater Grasslands Beef sells about 75 percent of its product through retailers like Whole Foods and Natural Grocers, with the remaining 25 percent online. €œGrass-fed beef is getting to a point where it’s almost an interesting business,â€?
Mr. Lasater said the afternoon before heading to California to speak with investors. €œIt sounds fairly simple, but when you get into the nitty-gritty of raising the beef and trying to supply people on a timely basis — what they want, when they want it and how they want it — it’s actually complicated, because you’re at the mercy of Mother Nature. A month ago, the Lasater Ranch in Matheson — some 30,000 acres of shortgrass prairie 70 miles southeast of Denver that runs along the cottonwood-lined Big Sandy Creek, now dry — received its first rain in more than a year.
€œThe grass is very green and the ranch looks great, but six weeks ago we were wondering what happens if we have to move cattle off,â€? Mr. Lasater said.
Oops, I missed this question when you posted it, but just wrote a hub for the current hubmob that you might find answers this one as well.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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