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If we didn't feed 70% of the grain grown elsewhere to the cattle being raised in your area, you could live on that grain and other produce that comes from elsew

If we didn't feed 70% of the grain grown elsewhere to the cattle being raised in your area, you could live on that grain and other produce that comes from elsewhere.

cwbrandsma 12y ago
I don't know where your 70% came from, but I know for a fact cattle can live quite well without any grain (they love grain, but it is kind of like feeding your kids an all sugar diet. You can only do it for a little while). Start going to your butcher and ask for grass-fed beef. The more demand there is, the more you will see it. One part of grain that is used for cattle is the grain shaft, which is used for bedding. Not sure if you have a better use for it, but you sure don't want to eat it...even the cows don't eat that (well, they don't each much of it anyway). Also, make sure you aren't confusing dairy cattle with beef cattle. Dairy cattle will often eat small amount of grain over longer periods (they live longer), but often consume a larger portion of hog corn and alfalfa. You can read up on "Total Mix Ration" if you want. Beef cattle, when brought in for finishing will sometimes eat large amounts of grain for a short period. Do you also want to eat hog corn and alfalfa? You can each hog corn, but the cooking time is pretty high.
- IndianAstronaut 12y ago
  There are no regulatory standards on "grass fed beef". Egen if they eat a little grass, you can still market with that label and markup the price.
  - jobposter1234 12y ago
    This is incorrect, in the U.S., at least, grass fed marketing claims can only be used when the steer is exclusively fed on grass: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType= http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...
- frandroid 12y ago
  You can plant something else in those fields that aren't feeding cows anymore. Otherwise, there isn't enough grasslands to feed all the cattle that we're raising out there. And the calorie consumed by cows to calories consumed by humans ratio is somewhere like 7 to 1. If we didn't eat meat, we'd have a lot more food available on our hands, not to mention the drastically reduced methane production that threatens our climate as much as all transportation sources put together.

If we didn't feed 70% of the grain grown elsewhere to the cattle being raised in your area, you could live on that grain and other produce that comes from elsewhere.

cwbrandsma 12y ago

I don't know where your 70% came from, but I know for a fact cattle can live quite well without any grain (they love grain, but it is kind of like feeding your kids an all sugar diet. You can only do it for a little while). Start going to your butcher and ask for grass-fed beef. The more demand there is, the more you will see it. One part of grain that is used for cattle is the grain shaft, which is used for bedding. Not sure if you have a better use for it, but you sure don't want to eat it...even the cows don't eat that (well, they don't each much of it anyway). Also, make sure you aren't confusing dairy cattle with beef cattle. Dairy cattle will often eat small amount of grain over longer periods (they live longer), but often consume a larger portion of hog corn and alfalfa. You can read up on "Total Mix Ration" if you want. Beef cattle, when brought in for finishing will sometimes eat large amounts of grain for a short period. Do you also want to eat hog corn and alfalfa? You can each hog corn, but the cooking time is pretty high.

IndianAstronaut 12y ago
There are no regulatory standards on "grass fed beef". Egen if they eat a little grass, you can still market with that label and markup the price.
- jobposter1234 12y ago
  This is incorrect, in the U.S., at least, grass fed marketing claims can only be used when the steer is exclusively fed on grass: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType= http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...
frandroid 12y ago
You can plant something else in those fields that aren't feeding cows anymore. Otherwise, there isn't enough grasslands to feed all the cattle that we're raising out there. And the calorie consumed by cows to calories consumed by humans ratio is somewhere like 7 to 1. If we didn't eat meat, we'd have a lot more food available on our hands, not to mention the drastically reduced methane production that threatens our climate as much as all transportation sources put together.