How often have you heard that it would be better if North Americans stoped eating beef and gave the food that is fed to the cattle to the starving nations of the world? Supposedly if Americans became vegetarians, world hunger would stop almost immediately. I remember having this rhetoric drummed into me during my early school years decades ago.
The basis for the argument is that it takes about 18 times more food to feed cattle than what the animal can produce. So why not take all of that grain that is fed to cattle and feed it to people in impoverished countries?
Industrial feedlot cattle are fed sub-grade corn, about 95% of that corn is genetically modified and highly sprayed with pesticides. Nature did not design cattle to eat corn. The corn does provide calories and does pack on weight, but it disturbs the metabolism and if the cattle lived long enough, it would have the same health problems that people would have if they ate this GMO corn based grain as their primary diet
Wouldn't it be a more logical solution to stop growing the GMO garbage, unfit for cattle or man?
Cattle are designed to eat native grasses. When they eat grasses their meat is very healthful and full of nutrients that is lacking in industrial feedlot beef. These are nutrients lacking in other foods and can only be found in grassfed or free range animal products.
Then just imagine that we would no longer have to waste money on gas whacking down native grasses. Instead the cattle can eat the grasses, we save gas, equipment and time not mowing it down. We have then just turned a waste product into something in high demand, grassfed beef. Think about it
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