Unless you eat grass finished beef, then all of your beef has been finished in a CAFO. These are massive pens where thousands of head of cattle are crammed in to spend their last days on mountains of shit while eating fermented hay and corn (which they cannot properly digest).
They are being fattened up on grains that would ultimately kill them if fed exclusively.
Up until this end point (where your steak is rendered tender by the process of virtually poisoning and torturing the cow) they were roaming around on pasture and eating grass and stubble.
Cattle in feedlots are vulnerable to everything you could imagine where an animal is deprived of virtually everything that it would find in nature. Black animals on black ground in the scorching sun, eating toxic "food". What could go wrong?
Probably bloat and possibly done intentionally to exacerbate the impending food crisis. And yes, it would be nice if cattle never had to suffer like this.
Zoom in on any of the feedlots in Greeley, CO to see the scale of this and the environmental devastation caused by grain finished beef operations.
Bloat yes. Disrupt the supply of Beef, hardly. The US processes 98 million head of cattle a year. 10K bloated animals doesn't make a dent in the production.
Certainly if it was intentional, but this happens every year so it isn't unusual. What is unusual is that so many people are giving into the hype. Don't forget the rancher just lost $ 1M in sales.
Unless you eat grass finished beef, then all of your beef has been finished in a CAFO. These are massive pens where thousands of head of cattle are crammed in to spend their last days on mountains of shit while eating fermented hay and corn (which they cannot properly digest).
They are being fattened up on grains that would ultimately kill them if fed exclusively.
Up until this end point (where your steak is rendered tender by the process of virtually poisoning and torturing the cow) they were roaming around on pasture and eating grass and stubble.
Cattle in feedlots are vulnerable to everything you could imagine where an animal is deprived of virtually everything that it would find in nature. Black animals on black ground in the scorching sun, eating toxic "food". What could go wrong?
Probably bloat and possibly done intentionally to exacerbate the impending food crisis. And yes, it would be nice if cattle never had to suffer like this.
Zoom in on any of the feedlots in Greeley, CO to see the scale of this and the environmental devastation caused by grain finished beef operations.
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Bloat yes. Disrupt the supply of Beef, hardly. The US processes 98 million head of cattle a year. 10K bloated animals doesn't make a dent in the production.
I think that we are looking at a death by 1000 cuts narrative.
Certainly if it was intentional, but this happens every year so it isn't unusual. What is unusual is that so many people are giving into the hype. Don't forget the rancher just lost $ 1M in sales.