Whether it's sawdust, walnut husks, corn, grains, lard, or even other cows, someone in the past 100 years has probably advocated feeding it to cows. That's at

Whether it's sawdust, walnut husks, corn, grains, lard, or even other cows, someone in the past 100 years has probably advocated feeding it to cows. That's at least what I remember as one of the takeaway messages when I took ruminant nutrition and digestion. So, I'm not at all surprised that he can comb through the literature and find people suggesting that cows be fed corn a very long time ago. But it seems like a bit of a logical leap to use a few examples in the literature to refute claims like this: “Before WW II, most Americans had never eaten corn-fed beef.”