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What is your concern about the cow eating old chocolate?
by slurgfest 14y ago
What is your concern about the cow eating old chocolate?
- Qworg 14y agoNothing specifically about chocolate. Any non-grass diet is demonstrably worse for the cows in overall health and final meat quality.
- bunderbunder 14y agoI imagine developing heart disease or diabetes later in life isn't particularly high on the list of concerns for beef cattle, considering they're sent to slaughter at a fraction of their natural life span.
- tzs 14y agoThe problem isn't that cows might get heart disease if they were allowed to live into old age. The problem is that these bad diets make them sick while young, often requiring that they be pumped full of medicine to be "healthy" enough to be eligible for slaughter. This affects the quality (culinary and nutritional) of the meat for humans.
- bunderbunder 14y agoThat's not because of the diet, that's because of the crowded and unsanitary nature of conditions in CAFOs.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoBeing a meat product is also horrible for the cow's overall health. Nearly a 100% fatality rate. :)
- Qworg 14y agoTotally true. =) I'm less concerned with the existential health of the cow, just health when growing and feed type. Both of these influence final meat quality, along with many other variables. Example: Cows that were calm when killed are tastier.