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Say No to Corn-Fed Beef, Save the Planet
Target: You!Sponsored by: Care2
Nearly 100% of beef sold in grocery stores is from corn-fed cows. But feeding corn to cows is cruel and is detrimental to our health and the environment.
Cows are meant to digest grass, so corn diets lead to extreme digestive discomfort, including bloating to the point of potential suffocation, and weak immune systems. Corn-fed cows live on cramped feedlots, unable to move.
Feeding corn to cows also breeds bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics and digestive acids in humans. Corn production and waste from corn-fed animals are a huge source of greenhouse gas, water and air pollution.
Instead, stores should sell beef from grass-fed cows who roam free their whole lives, eliminating the ethical, health, and environmental problems corn feeding operations incur.
If consumers create a demand for more sustainable grass-fed beef, producers will listen.
------For one person's perspective, check out Jana Ballinger's blog post on this issue.
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Mariza Praun, Brazil
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Joanne D. Ferguson, Ohio
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Armand Fontaine, Texas
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9:43 am PDT, Aug 8,
Jennifer Henderson, Florida
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9:04 am PDT, Aug 8,
Katie Valiquette, Canada
As a vegetarian and avid animal lover, i believe in treating animals with as much love and respect that i treat my own children with. Also, if they were born to eat grass, why in the world would people feed them corn??? Oh, right...selfish profit that is going to backfire in the end. That is not helping our beautiful planet.
As a vegetarian and avid animal lover, i believe in treating animals with as much love and respect that i treat my own children with. Also, if they were born to eat grass, why in the world would people feed them corn??? Oh, right...selfish profit that is going to backfire in the end. That is not helping our beautiful planet.
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7:43 am PDT, Aug 8,
Neslihan Gedik, Turkey
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7:08 am PDT, Aug 8,
John Peterson, Oregon
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5:31 am PDT, Aug 8,
Debra Van way, West Virginia
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2:11 am PDT, Aug 8,
Emily Gayton, United Kingdom
i thought the human race was supposed to be intelligent??? surely it's COMMON SENSE!?!?!
i thought the human race was supposed to be intelligent??? surely it's COMMON SENSE!?!?!
# 1,039:
12:39 am PDT, Aug 8,
Chelsea Moritz, Ohio
I think it wrong what people are doing and should go for the other other thing if they could
I think it wrong what people are doing and should go for the other other thing if they could
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11:26 pm PDT, Aug 7,
Shirley Cupani, Arizona
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Lori Forman, Massachusetts
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Debbie Peterson, Pennsylvania
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Ronald Hammersley, Florida
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Hendrata Loekman, Indonesia
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Mark Schneider, California
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Linsey Cicchetto, Maine
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Thirza Carpenter, Canada
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Samantha Pomp, Arizona
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Karen Simon, Illinois
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Taofoundation The Animal Orphanage, Belgium
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Marie Alabiso, Massachusetts
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12:28 am PDT, Aug 6,
Jeremy M, California
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12:25 am PDT, Aug 6,
Djordje Ladjevic, Canada
Live COWS out the building or feedlots to land FREE than be HEALTH and beast when to EAT GRASS and moving around like people walk in park or some also!!!
Live COWS out the building or feedlots to land FREE than be HEALTH and beast when to EAT GRASS and moving around like people walk in park or some also!!!
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4:07 pm PDT, Aug 5,
Shelly ., Washington
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Madeline Tucker, Arkansas
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Karin Keeling, North Carolina
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Sarah Manthey, Ohio
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1:51 am PDT, Aug 5,
Alexandra Susini, France
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8:08 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Alice Munro, New Zealand
I don't eat meat. I think it is revolting what us humans do to animals to produce more meat faster...I would rather stay away from it but if you are going to eat meat, please buy organic, free range ie grass fed beef. thanks.
I don't eat meat. I think it is revolting what us humans do to animals to produce more meat faster...I would rather stay away from it but if you are going to eat meat, please buy organic, free range ie grass fed beef. thanks.
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7:11 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Elsa Silva, Australia
sick in the stomach
sick in the stomach
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4:57 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Matthew Smith, South Carolina
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10:16 am PDT, Aug 4,
Nicole Imhof, Germany
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7:27 am PDT, Aug 4,
Steve Erlsten, Florida
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6:51 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Nikki Argianas, Australia
It should be abolished as cattle are designed to eat grass and not corn!! They're not chickens!! Don't let the innocent cows suffer because of human greed, ignorance & cruelty. GRASS ALL THE WAY!!!!
It should be abolished as cattle are designed to eat grass and not corn!! They're not chickens!! Don't let the innocent cows suffer because of human greed, ignorance & cruelty. GRASS ALL THE WAY!!!!
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2:13 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Lorraine Genovese, California
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11:22 am PDT, Aug 3,
J Smith, Canada
Stop feeding cattle food that is not natural. Stop the use of feedlots. Allows cattle to roam and graze naturally on natural grass. |
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11:08 am PDT, Aug 3,
June Marshall, New Hampshire
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Beverly Pennell, Georgia
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Brigid Panter, Florida
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1:26 am PDT, Aug 3,
Marie-Rose HECKMANN, France
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7:25 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Deborah Niwa, Pennsylvania
I feel its wrong.. Cows are supposed to eat grass & what they are used to.. I feel this is stopping them from enjoying there life at the most.. I only want cows that eat what they should as they did in the OLD DAYS when Farmers NEW HOW to raise there beef the right way..
I feel its wrong.. Cows are supposed to eat grass & what they are used to.. I feel this is stopping them from enjoying there life at the most.. I only want cows that eat what they should as they did in the OLD DAYS when Farmers NEW HOW to raise there beef the right way..
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4:02 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Christina Louise Dicker, Australia