Today's post is about where our meat comes from (all none organic and some organic), aka feedlots. There are two main types of feedlots industrial and industrial organic. Feedlot or feedyard is a type of confined animal feeding operation also known as CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation). They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens.
The size of a big feedlot in the USA:
The feedlot enables the cattle to gain weight faster through grain feeding and protein supplements, in order that the cattle may reach mature slaughter weight much faster than normal. This system displaces cattle from a species-appropriate environment into a confined area where feeding takes place through "mechanized trough-like" system.
Feedlots are used in many countries to produce cows, pigs, ducks, horses, chicken, sheep, turkey and just about any other farmed animal. Waste produced in these feedlots is so toxic that the only thing that is keeping it from being considered toxic waste is lobbing. There are several different reasons why it's toxic waste. First they're fed a diet of 95% grain which causes their gut flora to gain a ph similar to our own which means they need to consume antibiotics in order to still be safe to eat which all leads to poop that is very acidic, full of antibiotics and some pesticides which creates a piece of poop that is good at devastating ecosystems.
Avoid the muddy cattle feed lot, from a reduction of performance standpoint, we need to make sure that we get adequate from the lots. You can work around them.
ReplyDeleteAnother one. One place to avoid putting a cattle feed lot is over a high water table or where the aquifers are near the surface but it ends up being relatively expensive.
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