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A comment from the article made me think: if a cow is pumped full of drugs, hormones, and food it doesn't normally eat (corn), with the goals of making the ani
by vlad 18y ago
A comment from the article made me think: if a cow is pumped full of drugs, hormones, and food it doesn't normally eat (corn), with the goals of making the animal as fat as possible as fast as possible in order to feed the most humans in the quickest time, how can that meat not cause similar side effects when eaten by humans?
- mynameishere 18y agoBecause it undergoes various chemical reactions between being corn and being cow.
- vlad 18y agoI appreciate your prompt reply! However, I can't parse your post because I can't come up with a word for "it", as used in your sentence. I've tried "meat", but it doesn't work. Could you please elaborate on what you are trying to say? Are you trying to write that chemicals are put into meat before it leaves the factory to cancel out all the other hormones, drugs, and other chemicals that have been part of the cow's entire life? I've heard of many studies where that is not the case at all. In fact, the use of hormones in poultry is banned--is it because hormones don't transfer to humans, or because they do? Though meat from cows doesn't need to be hormone-free... does it mean it's organic, and that the cow was fed the way it would be normally? I don't think so. In your case, what about the possibility that since corn is almost exclusively used to feed cows even though it's not their normal food, shows that it must provide some benefit to the owners, one of which may be that the cows grow fatter from the same amount of corn versus the same amount of another plant? That would be one example of a situation where a bad trait can be developed for those who eat corn and for carnivores who eat that meat, without chemicals. Thanks!
- mattmaroon 18y agoBy it he meant the cow's diet I think. Hormones might show up, but just as you can't chemically tell the difference between an organic vegetable and one raised solely on Miracle grow, you probably can't distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn. I don't know that corn makes cows fatter, it's just a cheaper source of food. I'm pretty sure it allows you to grow significantly more cattle on a given amount of land. I could be wrong though. Given that I can hear them mooing every morning when I step outside you'd think I would know more, but I don't.
- fub4r 18y agoIf I read the article correctly it pretty much says that you can distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn.
- mattmaroon 18y agoHa, you can tell right where I clicked away.
- delackner 18y ago"you probably can't distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn" This is incorrect. Antibiotics, growth hormones, all of that doesn't just disappear from the cow's bloodstream the instant it dies. Just one simple delivery mechanism: Meat is muscle tissue. It is full of blood. Blood carries the various drugs that the cow has been pumped full of to deal with eating corn. You EAT that blood when you eat the meat. Now, certainly some chemicals change when the meat is cooked, but they don't all disappear, nor do they necessarily change into something harmless. Some chemicals may become (more) toxic after being cooked.
- pchristensen 18y ago"making the animal as fat as possible as fast as possible" Who says it doesn't?
- vlad 18y agoWhat do you mean?
- pchristensen 18y agoIt seems to be making people as fat as possible as fast as possible...