I got together with Dave this past weekend, and it came up in our conversation that I was buying a cow. Not to graze on my postage stamp size yard here in ABQ, but a dead one, to eat
. We are a family of 5, so buying in bulk makes more sense for us than most people I would assume.
To give you the quick executive summary of our conversation: I saw this documentary called King Corn. It is amazing to see how pervasive corn is in everything we eat. Here is a link to its website:
http://www.kingcorn.net/
That got me and the wife talking, and we are going to make our best effort to reduce the amount of corn intake for ourselves and the kids.
In my research I found an operation in Texas that specializes in the grass-fed livestock. It is pricey, I am not going to lie to you. Hopefully, the quality and benefits are good enough to offset the costs. Here is the link:
http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/index.htm
Doing a little bit more research on what they discussed in the documentary, I wanted to find out more about this problem in stockyards. It is called acidosis. In summary, the grain based diet is slowly killing the animals, lucky for us (sic) they generally slaughter the animals before acidosis kills them (how kind, eh
). My research hasn't been super extensive, but some quick things to pass along for your reading pleasure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidosis
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=3956
I would love to hear from everybody on what they think of this topic and nutrition issues in general. And on that note, I have to go to work. I hope everyone is doing well, and has a chance to enjoy the day
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To give you the quick executive summary of our conversation: I saw this documentary called King Corn. It is amazing to see how pervasive corn is in everything we eat. Here is a link to its website:
http://www.kingcorn.net/
That got me and the wife talking, and we are going to make our best effort to reduce the amount of corn intake for ourselves and the kids.
In my research I found an operation in Texas that specializes in the grass-fed livestock. It is pricey, I am not going to lie to you. Hopefully, the quality and benefits are good enough to offset the costs. Here is the link:
http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/index.htm
Doing a little bit more research on what they discussed in the documentary, I wanted to find out more about this problem in stockyards. It is called acidosis. In summary, the grain based diet is slowly killing the animals, lucky for us (sic) they generally slaughter the animals before acidosis kills them (how kind, eh
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidosis
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=3956
I would love to hear from everybody on what they think of this topic and nutrition issues in general. And on that note, I have to go to work. I hope everyone is doing well, and has a chance to enjoy the day
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