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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.
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3:57 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Daile O'Connor, New Jersey
I personally don't eat beef at all (I'm a vegetarian) but I encourage all meat-eaters to demand grass-fed beef in their local restaurants & grocery stores instead of corn-fed beef. If consumers create a demand for grass-fed beef, producers WILL listen! |
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10:01 am PDT, Jun 7,
Sarah Baker, Illinois
Corn-fed beef is wasteful. When I ate beef, I thought it tasted terrible. Grass-fed beef is more natural, and has a better flavor. |