Fast Food Nation Now Is Inside Your Chicken Wing

[The Void]

I read an rehashed Wall Street Journal article in yesterday's Ann Arbor paper and was even more astonished than I've ever been to find out what farmers are doing to your livestock soon-to-be-dinner now.

Turns out that due to the rise in corn prices for use in Ehtanol based products, farmers seem to not be able to feed their livestock with corn anymore. Many used to mix corn with other things like soy bean meal and other who knows what, but about 70% was corn. Now farmers are scrambling for a cheap solution for what to feed livestock.

Apparently many of them have resorted to feeding the cows, pigs and chickens that might be on your dinner table with candy bars, cheese doodles and all sorts of cheap junk food filler. It was bad enough that America is the fatest nation in the world due to the non-food we constantly eat as a fast food nation, but now this takes the cake, no pun intended.

Luckily I eat free range, grass and vegetarian fed chicken and beef only (and wild fish) and I don't eat pork, but damn, I still cannot believe they're feeding animals this. I mean, sure their life span is short, but that's no excuse to abuse these animals by feeding them diets of junk food, therefore degrading the meat quality further than it already was.

I'm not saying this should start some anti-ethanol revolution, that is NOT what I am saying, but I am mentioning this in case people didn't catch that article. Isn't that insane? Cows eating candy bars!!!

[BrassFusion]

how could candy bars be cheaper than corn???

[know_buddy_kares]

hmmm... well i'm not sure about candy bars, but the other things mentioned, like cheetos, doritos, ect... all are filled with the high fruitcose corn syrup (the non nutritional shit that goes straight to your hips and guts and stays) This is all illogical actually, due to ethanol demand raising prices of corn, they resort to the corn "bi product" that's completely worthless to the body... yet something that's been put through more steps that cost time, effort and money.. to be cheaper then the product it origionally was manufactured from... Am I missing something here?

[Homicidalheathen]

How do you find and buy all free range....kinda expensive? You single with no kids...? Do you shop at good foods?

[The Void]

How do you find and buy all free range....kinda expensive? You single with no kids...? Do you shop at good foods?

Wow, well, I suppose we can delve into my personal financial life. haha

I can afford it now, but I was not always able to. Actually I live in Ann Arbor and we have a local butcher who deals specifically with special farms and some Amish farms. I also have shopped at Whole Foods. WF can be tricky though since you have to read everything...not all their stuff is even free range and I will not eat their beef at all.

Usually if you search for 'organic' in your area online it leads you to some possible free range farmers, etc. some markets and stuff like that that carry that stuff. If you have a local farmers market you might run into some farmers who raise livestock and deal with that as well. There is one person who comes to our farmers market in A2 that deals with free-range, hormone free, organic lamb, but I don't eat lamb, so...no big.

I fully realize that this is expensive for many people, it's expensive for me, but I don't want total garbage in my body so I do it. I'm not preaching here in any way or telling people how to eat, just passing along some insane information that I just read in the Saturday paper. :grin

oh p.s. I am also considering completely changing my diet to a raw foods diet only. It's pretty much where I'm headed, but that's a topic for an entirely new thread.