Ban Meat? Never!!!!!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.

That is just flat out wrong. Unless you are talking about empty dessert with poor soil and water brought in.

The only, and I mean only reason feedlot beef is less expensive than grassfed is because of the massive subsidies those producers receive from you know who.

Do you really believe it costs more to turn out a cow in a field of grass that requires little to no maintenance than it does to grow the grains, process it, load it up with antibiotics and ship it before finally feeding the feedlot animals?

I know several ranchers here that would strongly disagree.