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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
A cow that eats nothing but grass out in the field uses a tiny percentage of the resources used in producing a factory farmed cow.
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True, but in the far west, one cow needs about 40 acres to get enough nutrition . In Kentucky, you can put 10 cows on a 40-acre field for the summer, but have to rotate to another field and supplement with hay for the winter.
Factory farming has a big upside - it produces inexpensive food, in high volume. As a hugely overpopulated country, we need that. Not that most of America couldn't stand to eat noticably less
And we definitely have a taste for plumped up, overfed, "not like nature makes it" meat.