Re:Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
by delackner on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @02:56AM
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"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.
If 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.
Re:Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
by mattmaroon on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @02:14AM
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Ha, you can tell right where I clicked away.
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.