I am a strong believer in "voting with your paycheck".
By that I mean what you purchase with your money directly keeps certain business, and in effect, those business's practices, going.
For example, if you go to the supermarket and buy a package of grain-fed beef, you are purchasing beef that was fed corn.
Your money is then directly funding factory farmed, corn-fed beef.
Now, corn makes cows sick.
Cows were designed to eat grass. Their four stomachs are superbly able to digest grass and turn it into everything their bodies need. Very few animals can exist on grazing grass. A cow is one of them. Feeding a cow corn feed for it's life is like like feeding a human nothing but corn syrup colored with yellow # 5, all day, every day, for the life of that person. It's not natural, and it doesn't provide all the nutrients that the cow needs.
In fact, the corn is so bad for the cows digestive system that it actually causes liver abscesses, which is why cows are fed antibiotics like candy in factory farms. They need the antibiotics to survive because the food they are given is so harmful to their digestive system. Then, in the factory after slaughter the meat is pressure washed with detergents because it's so dirty, and then it's radiated to kill any e. Coli leftover from the wash. Then, that meat is ground up, slopped into a Styrofoam container and shipped to your local supermarket for consumption by - you guessed it - you and your family.
I know this is disturbing. But knowledge is power and there is something you can do about it. :) Vote with your dollars and buy grass-fed, free range beef. Those cows are much healthier, happier animals than factory farmed cattle.
I'm a vegetarian, but I hear they taste better, too. Now wouldn't you feel better knowing you're eating a happy, healthy cow?
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