Grain fed beef

I worked on a cattle station for the last 6 weeks. As someone who went a year without eating meat it reaffirmed why we should be thinking twice before putting this feces ridden stuff in our mouths! To start with the food they are fed is designed to make them fat, some even have heart attacks and strokes because of their artery clogging diets high in sugar and grain such as sorghum and wheat rather than grass and the chemicals they are injected with to stimulate growth (steroids) and fight off disease (anti-biotic) in an unnatural environment.

These gender modified animals can become so heavy that they can't get to their feet and can suffer broken limbs. Their immune systems also suffer in this environment with many coming down with infections of the respiratory tract and penis! It wasn't pretty to see them treated! Injections are given around the neck because it's the cheapest cut of beef (think twice before choosing based on cost).

The animals live in small pens and spend all day breathing manure dust which smells nothing like a grass fed cows feces (the food cows have evolved to live off!). When it rains they wallow around all day ankle deep in shit and become cover in it. Some cattle are given shade, others aren't. The reason is that only the ones that become sick in the desert sun are given shade, everything is determined by profitability. Even though I was there during winter those that have shade choose to use it.



The graph at the top of the page shows that Omega-3 fats which have hundreds of health benefits disappear from these artificially fat cows! Another reason to think twice. If you still want to eat beef/meat you're better off doing it half as often and eating organically grown produce which is twice as expensive but will actually improve your health rather than take it away...

Animals denied the life of an animal will damage your health!
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