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  Corn ruins cows stomaches and

  Corn ruins cows stomaches, causing inflamations and increased chances of infections, and feedlots exacerbate the problems, and this is why they need so much antibiotics.

  But overall feedlot animal feeds tend to be the cheapest possible sources that get the animals the heaviest the soonest -- as they are simply money sources for the meat industry.

  Feeding cows their own meat by-products not used elsewhere, such as brains and spinal columns, contribute to mad cow disease.

  Feeding cows sawdust is also something that has been reported. Even grain fed to cows is simply to fatten then quicker.

  Cows have evolved to eat grasses. One cannot feed them stuff they were not "made" to digest and not expect problems.

  Apparently, it is simply cheaper to feed cows corn and anything else to produce a pound of "meat" than it is to grass feed them. So, therefore, until more people than not use their market power and insist on and buy grass feed beef, this will not end. Ever.

  Better yet, eat less beef!
  On Feeding ethanol waste to cows posted 1 year, 11 months ago 18 Responses

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  In general, Friedman's an ass

  The NonSequitur has its own section on Friedman http://thenonsequitur.com/?cat=74 (granted, it's not  that large).

  But Friedman is like many newspaper pundits who dash out daily Op-Ed pieces -- they're opinion pieces!

  He is hardly an expert in anything and is frequently rebutted by letters to the editor and others.On We are not yet the 'people we have been waiting for' to solve 'global weirding' posted 1 year, 11 months ago 15 Responses

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  Re: Come on down to the Sunshine State

  Thanks for that post. This had completly passed under my radar.

  As a side note, I have been in and traveling around New England for the last 20 years and have seen a sharp increase in the amount of farmers markets in the past few years, in rural areas as well as in large towns and  cities around Boston.

  It seems that there are several farmers markets in every county I passed through this year (I've been traveling all summer and into the fall).
  On How corporate control of produce markets squeezes workers, farmers, and consumers posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 Responses