The Miracle of Corn Fed Cattle

Corn Fed. Sounds great. A sign of quality. Sounds a whole lot better than "animal bi-product fed" or "pumped full of antibiotics and hormones". Luckily, in our wonderful modern world we can get all 3 and cheap! That's right beef fans. Your cattle is getting fat off 2nd grade government subsidized corn. Grade A American beef is marbled to suit the consumer. That's right you get the great taste of beef full of the fat that makes it extra tasty. What that you say? Fat is bad for you? It's ok. You are what you eat, and the US keeps its cattle healthy with a regular dose of antibiotics. In fact, they are so concerned with quality they give more drugs to their beef than they do to their people. They don't stop there, though. Nope, where would quality be without quantity? Rest assured, each cow is given a bare minimum of space in order to maximize the efficiency of the land. That would just be pointless rhetoric without numbers, though. In 2003, the US meat machine managed to process over 35 million cattle.

Well, if your not convinced, take a look at the competition. Canadian beef outlawed the use of hormones in its cattle. Argentine beef, the so called "best beef in the world", only eats grass. Now how much marbling could you possibly get out of that?