Meet the Genetically Engineered Pig With Earth-Friendly Poop!

[ntiveheart]

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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

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Why change the feed when subsidies make corn so cheap to buy and yet so profitable to grow? Same goes for cow/beef farming - nature says "feed me grass please" and man says "Well, since Earl "Rusty" Butz (USDA, 1973), AMD, and Cargill have made it so I can get extra money to grow corn "fencerow to fencerow" and a guaranteed price floor - it doesn't make economic sense to grow anything else"

- (Which has been proven to create a less healthy beef product: A corn-fed cow does develop well-marbled flesh, but this is simply saturated fat that can't be trimmed off. Grass-fed meat on the other hand, is lower both in overall fat, and in artery-clogging saturated fat, while being higher in Omega 3s. A sirloin steak from a grain-fed steer has more than double the total fat of a similar cut from a grass-fed steer.)

- (And then, on top of all that, add in the bonus money from turning that corn into High Fructose Corn Syrup, or the bonus money from turning it into Ethanol - it is really quite shocking!)

* I love farmers, and I want them to succeed and be prosperous and not have to get bought out by major corporations. But the subsidies put in place during the depression have been abused by corporations out to make a quick buck at the expense of the health of Americans.

I'm guessing you've read Omnivore's Dilemma?

I'm 3/4ths through it now.