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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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4:35 pm PDT, Aug 15,
James Tatum, Jr., Connecticut
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Allyson Hilliard, Alabama
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Cindy Wiebe, Canada
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Tom Jackson, Colorado
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Anne Seidel, Germany
GO VEGAN!
GO VEGAN!
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Marcia Warth, Ohio
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Jennifer Daneault, New York
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Molly Lang, Missouri
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SANDRA ROCHA, Portugal
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Mimi V, United Kingdom
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4:11 pm PDT, Aug 13,
Kathy Lyon, Missouri
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3:02 pm PDT, Aug 13,
Cher Nelson, Minnesota
I pledge to promote humane, sustainable beef production by: When purchasing beef, choosing grass-fed beef whenever possible* Requesting local grocery stores and restaurants to provide grass-fed beef Educating myself and others about the differences between grass-fed and corn-fed beef
I pledge to promote humane, sustainable beef production by: When purchasing beef, choosing grass-fed beef whenever possible* Requesting local grocery stores and restaurants to provide grass-fed beef Educating myself and others about the differences between grass-fed and corn-fed beef
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10:40 am PDT, Aug 13,
Rene Venema, Netherlands
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9:11 am PDT, Aug 13,
Carrie Coulter, Mississippi
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4:31 am PDT, Aug 13,
Sue Clack, United Kingdom
I honestly never realised they were doing this and as it causes pain to the cows I feel it is very wrong to do this as the cows deserve a good life as if there happy then meat eaters are happy would hate to think i was eating beef that had suffered needlessy before hand
I honestly never realised they were doing this and as it causes pain to the cows I feel it is very wrong to do this as the cows deserve a good life as if there happy then meat eaters are happy would hate to think i was eating beef that had suffered needlessy before hand
# 1,078:
10:55 pm PDT, Aug 12,
Kristie Lyon, Missouri
I do not eat cows, or chickens or pigs or any of it. Cows are wonderful beautiful creatures that are caring for their guardians. I don't know if they care for their captors when they are forced to stay in a pen and eat corn. I detest this practice and ask that it comes to an end now. Cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, goats, and sheep all deserve to eat what nature intended and deserve to have good lives. Stop this now.
I do not eat cows, or chickens or pigs or any of it. Cows are wonderful beautiful creatures that are caring for their guardians. I don't know if they care for their captors when they are forced to stay in a pen and eat corn. I detest this practice and ask that it comes to an end now. Cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, goats, and sheep all deserve to eat what nature intended and deserve to have good lives. Stop this now.
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10:28 pm PDT, Aug 12,
Kristina Werner, Michigan
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9:31 pm PDT, Aug 12,
GREGORY MAIDA, New York
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Helga Lange, Arkansas
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J Roberts, Oregon
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Kathy Koloze, Texas
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12:23 pm PDT, Aug 12,
Doreen Charette, Pennsylvania
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11:54 am PDT, Aug 12,
Leslie Miedema, Florida
Corrn fed beef is also bad for the humans who consume it. We lose the micronutrients the cows digest from the grass. corn adds to much fat to the beef to an already fat America!
Corrn fed beef is also bad for the humans who consume it. We lose the micronutrients the cows digest from the grass. corn adds to much fat to the beef to an already fat America!
# 1,070:
11:04 am PDT, Aug 12,
Gloria Clements, Georgia
I buy very little meat, but any animal raised for our food deserves to be treated humanely. In addition, there are many other good uses for corn; so everyone would benefit. (When I do buy meat, I purchase brands that raise the animals in healthy settings; including no hormones or antibiotics and grass-fed beef.)
I buy very little meat, but any animal raised for our food deserves to be treated humanely. In addition, there are many other good uses for corn; so everyone would benefit. (When I do buy meat, I purchase brands that raise the animals in healthy settings; including no hormones or antibiotics and grass-fed beef.)
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10:56 am PDT, Aug 12,
Lenore Ferrill, Texas
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Sherri Bessire, Texas
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Audrey Whitaker, Indiana
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4:57 am PDT, Aug 12,
Sebihi Nawel, France
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2:35 am PDT, Aug 12,
Celine Bahlinger, France
I'm vegetarian...
I'm vegetarian...
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11:54 pm PDT, Aug 11,
KD Haferkamp, Texas
I don't eat beef at all but if you eat it it should be natural & the cattle treated humanely.
I don't eat beef at all but if you eat it it should be natural & the cattle treated humanely.
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10:12 pm PDT, Aug 11,
Libera Massari, Peru
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Amber Verduin, Iowa
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Sarah Rosaen, Michigan
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Peter Kuhn, California
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9:10 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Angie Ragan, Canada
I'm vegetarian but I think that if one absolutely can't live without eating beef then it ought to be raised, fed and killed under natural circumstances, which do not include corn feeding, antibiotics, cramped feedlots and filthy slaughterhouses.
I'm vegetarian but I think that if one absolutely can't live without eating beef then it ought to be raised, fed and killed under natural circumstances, which do not include corn feeding, antibiotics, cramped feedlots and filthy slaughterhouses.
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4:49 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Brandy Mertes, Illinois
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10:25 am PDT, Aug 10,
Gerda Ostermann, Germany
All people in the world have to be responsible for all creatures living on this planet, even you. So why don't you stop fatal behaviour of mankind against nature? Noone has the right to eat corn-feede beef while there are people starving!
All people in the world have to be responsible for all creatures living on this planet, even you. So why don't you stop fatal behaviour of mankind against nature? Noone has the right to eat corn-feede beef while there are people starving!
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6:54 am PDT, Aug 10,
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4:12 am PDT, Aug 10,
Melanie Leary, Texas
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3:03 am PDT, Aug 10,
Ida Melin, Sweden
Terrible! Ididnīt even know about it.
Terrible! Ididnīt even know about it.
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12:33 am PDT, Aug 10,
Eileen Thornton, United Kingdom