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Yes, but feeding cows corn is silly. They can't digest it and you end up with bland greasy inedible meat, and corn is quite hard to grow.
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Yes, but feeding cows corn is silly. They can't digest it and you end up with bland greasy inedible meat, and corn is quite hard to grow.
- thghtihadanacct 4y ago100% on the cows, wrong on hard to grow. Growing in mass quantities is hard on the local environment (global if you count the affects from usage). Corn fed beef is bad.
- fredgrott 4y agoahem, wrong it gets converted to fatty acids see https://www.lakeforest.edu/news/a-difficult-reality-to-digest-the-effects-of-a-corn-based-diet-on-the-digestive-system-of-cattle https://www.lakeforest.edu/news/a-difficult-reality-to-diges... Its why they have fast weight gains In fact reducing corn yields and switching to a different crop will save farmers money as framers have to over supply fertilizer as they are planting corn too close together to get yields without using fertilizer i.e. corn take out more from soil than it gives back
- Gordonjcp 4y agoYeah, but you get bland greasy meat that's barely worth using for pet food.