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It has more to do with energy than price. Grass isn't expensive in itself, but corn has more energy which makes the cows grow faster to slaughter sooner. Grass feeding cows makes them grow slower which makes it more expensive in the long run. I think corn fed cows are slaughtered at 1.5 years and grass is around 4 years.

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#81 Apr 22 2011 at 6:49 AM Rating: Good

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Nadenu wrote:

So why are cows fed corn anyway?

Some might say it's because the government subsidizes corn production. This presumably makes the price of corn less than it's actual production costs.

Also corn is a good filler. Puts lots of weight on cows fast.

A trick out here on the coast is fattening your clams and mussels by feeding them corn meal for a day before steaming. It supposedly causes them to **** out some of the gritty sea-ish mud from the tummy as well. Still, others will claim that without that mud in the clam tummy, the bi-valve isn't nearly as tasty.

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#82 Apr 22 2011 at 6:51 AM Rating: Good

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Ailitardif, Star Breaker wrote:

TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:

I'm crying for the cows.

Wait, no I'm not, I'm eating my nice thick, tasty, porterhouse steak.

If that steak was grass-fed, it would taste even better.

I buy whole/half cows from my Aunt. This last one was not fed much feed, instead foraging for it's own in the fields. Being that it was too expensive to buy grain for it. But usually the ones fed grain in the barns (I'm not a farmer, I don't know the details/terminology) are better tasting. Probably because they are fatter. She doesn't raise them on corn.

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#83 Apr 22 2011 at 9:42 AM Rating: Decent

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paulsol wrote:

Cows are completely unable to digest corn naturally. A diet of corn causes diarrhea, ulcers, bloat, liver disease and a general weakening of the immune system that leaves the cow open to everything from pneumonia to feedlot polio.

Is that why livestock farms smell so bad?

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#84 Apr 26 2011 at 11:11 AM Rating: Good

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So here's a new twist to the corporate food ishewww.

The public is getting educated. The demand for fresh local food goes up. Local entrepreneurial farmers attempting to meet that demand are, allegedly - at least around here, being stymied by federal and state regulation. The same regs that are purportedly NOT sufficient to keep our food and workers safe from the profit-hungry multi-nationals. STORY

What to do, what to do???

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#85 Apr 26 2011 at 12:14 PM Rating: Good

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lolgaxe wrote:

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Chicago is probably the only other city I'd voluntarily want to live in.

Are there cities you'd want to live in against your will?

Tokyo would have to be against my will, because that's where my inlaws are. Smiley: mad

Well, that and the radiation.

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#86 Apr 26 2011 at 1:35 PM Rating: Good

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Elinda wrote:

So here's a new twist to the corporate food ishewww.

The public is getting educated. The demand for fresh local food goes up. Local entrepreneurial farmers attempting to meet that demand are, allegedly - at least around here, being stymied by federal and state regulation. The same regs that are purportedly NOT sufficient to keep our food and workers safe from the profit-hungry multi-nationals. STORY

What to do, what to do???

You mean over-regulation by "well-intentioned" liberals leads to unintended consequences?

Who'd have thought, what with nothing in the recent past showing "well-intentioned" liberals f'uck things up. You know what? They should totally get involved in the lending industry next. They should outlaw red-lining and force banks to make loans to people who can't pay them back.

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