GE/GMO Industry: Corporate Hijacking of Food and Agriculture

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Are you trying to start another food controversy? or do you already know that most of the beef currently sold today is grain/corn fed and not grass fed?

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120608/LIVING/306089992

We went in with some family members and purchased a whole grass fed cow late last summer. We got a quarter we split with my aunt and my sister got half. You can definitely taste the difference.

Not where I shop. And if you can't grow your own you can still buy good stuff fairly inexpensively.

Failure to get wholesome food is the fault of the buyer, not the seller.

ruveyn

I swear. yes that's exactly what I am doing, Unless of course I was playfully bantering with Fnord and GGViper about Eating GMO popcorn. The internet is becoming a real drag and hopfully I can break my awful addiction to it, I'm tired of going back and explaining everything I do because somebody takes everything I say personally, and out of context.

*Dies*

Okay, Rak ... you grab the wallet, I'll take the gun, and we'll leave the carcass for the crows!

Sounds great. Cows don't need our help anyways, they are filthy rich. I've seen one of the side of a milk carton so they must be doing well finachially speaking.

I was only trying to expand the topic by bringing up the Grass-Fed vs Corn-Fed Debate. Maybe I was just trying to derail the thread.

Many people buy grassfed beef and don't like it at all. It's not that the beef is bad but that they don't understand that they need to adapt their cooking methods a bit to deal with the differences.

I grew up on grassfed beef. Whenever I was a kid, we would always keep a steer or two when we sold cattle and keep them on grass. Whenever we were running low on beef, we'd go out in the pasture, load up a steer, and take him to the butcher.

One time in high school, there was a restaurant in another town that was known for their great steaks. One night when we were in that town for something we stopped at that restaurant for supper. I couldn't believe that people thought those were great steaks. As far as I was concerned, they were little better than not eating.

Sounds weird for me, that people are so used to wrong fed cows, that they dont know anymore how to cook with flesh of a normal cow. There are more disadvantages to it. First thing is, that a cornfeeded cow eats food, that is suited for humans. If everyone has enough to eat, no problem: So we can feed the rest to cows to get some flesh. But feeding cows with food that is suited for humans, while humans are starving is wrong in my opinion. And its a waste of good agricultural area.

Another big misadvantage, that feeding corn to cows produces a high risk for humans as well. So the digestive parts of a cow are not prepared for corn. They can digest it, but the bacterias that are normal in a cows stomaches, cant do as they are used to. So cornfed cows produce much more colibacterias as a normal cow does. So when slaughtering the cow, there is a much higher risk, that flesh can be contaminated with colibacterias, which can be pretty dangerous to people, special to toddlers, old and ill ones. The bigger a slaughter house is, the higher is the risk, that a wrong slaughtered cow can ruin your completes day production, when the flesh of that cow goes through the whole slaughterhouse.

As far as I learned, US slaughterhouses are so big, that it is no longer possible to prevent that wrong slaughtered cows regularly contaminate the whole slaughterhouse, so the flesh gets treated with ammoniac. As long as it gets well spiced afterwards, you cant taste it. From my opinion, if the flesh is spiced that much, that I dont taste ammoniac anymore, I can eat Tofu or a pressed cardboard as well. ^^ No need to eat flesh, if I dont get to taste it anyway.

Has this thread moved on from "GMOs are Evil / Organics are Good" to "Meat is Evil / Veganism is Good"?

Just askin' ...

Didnt hear something about vegetarism, only about no need to plant GMO stuff, only to feed animals with it, that are not designed to eat that stuff anyway.