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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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4:42 pm PDT, Aug 29,
Geoffrey Yost, Indiana
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2:35 pm PDT, Aug 29,
Jessica Miller, Florida
I have not eaten any beef since 1996 and I am pretty happy about it! I watched this documentary recently about corn and corn-fed cows, and it was very eye opening and disturbing just how damaging the whole process is to our bodies, as well as the environment.
I have not eaten any beef since 1996 and I am pretty happy about it! I watched this documentary recently about corn and corn-fed cows, and it was very eye opening and disturbing just how damaging the whole process is to our bodies, as well as the environment.
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Bronwyn Hughes, Australia
I'm a vegetarian I do not eat meat of any kind. It's the healthy lifestyle, especially for the animals. It's a contradiction to say you're an animal lover and yet eat meat! |
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Patty Langford, Texas
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Judith Jaehn, California
Why not go Vegan!!!!!
Why not go Vegan!!!!!
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Shawnamarie Murray MD, New Hampshire
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Srishti Kapoor, India
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Ken Tham, Singapore
say no to all meat, save the animals, ourselves and the planet!
say no to all meat, save the animals, ourselves and the planet!
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Joel Clasemann, Minnesota
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8:13 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Lydia Kalish, Utah
Corn is for people grass is for cows! |
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Sandra Mathews, Washington
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Sandy Valencour, Washington
GRASS FED IS HEALTHIER FOR AMERICANS
GRASS FED IS HEALTHIER FOR AMERICANS
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Name not displayed, Michigan
Whatever cows eat, we end up eating too, so to speak. If they get sick and we eat them, we deserve to get sick, unless we help them.
Whatever cows eat, we end up eating too, so to speak. If they get sick and we eat them, we deserve to get sick, unless we help them.
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Julia Menard, Canada
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