Last night I came home to my husband who was watching a documentary called, “King Corn”. This documentary follows two college friends who move to Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process they examine the role of increasing production of corn on American Society which isn’t good. I didn’t see the whole show but what I did see was eye opening.
Specifically an interview with a veterinary doctor who stated that the amount of saturated fat found in the tissue of a corn fed cow was NINE times higher than a grass fed cow. Cows naturally eat grass not corn. So we force feed cows into a unnatural diet for the sake of economics and efficiency. As a result they grow ulcers which become tumors and then cancerous because they are fed a diet of corn which cows wouldn’t naturally eat in the wild. It’s like penguins eating broccoli. I’m not a vegetarian and I don’t necessarily eat organic meats. But this has got me definitely thinking about switching to eating only organic. Food for thought… No pun intended
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