rick etter wrote:

"Beach Runner" wrote in message
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Just to correct some misconception.....

http://www.pioneer.com/media/knowhow...stock_uses.htm

Livestock Uses of Corn

Collectively, beef, poultry, pork and dairy producers represent corn
growers' No. 1 customer - consuming 5.6 billion bushels of corn annually.
Corn used directly as feed for domestic livestock represents 57 percent of
all of the corn grown in the United States.

In 2003, beef cattle were fed more than 1.4 billion bushels of corn.
Hogs consumed 1.1 billion bushels.
Poultry another 1.3 billion bushels.
As a primary livestock feed source, corn is a key link in the meat
production chain. More than half of the U.S. corn crop puts meat on
America's dinner table. A bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6
pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or
28 pounds of catfish.

Furthermore, most corn sold to other countries also is used to feed
livestock. In fact, 80 percent of corn raised in the United States is fed
to animals around the world

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So what? There is still no need to feed any corn to cows. The fact
remains that as a vegan yiou do *nothing* to change the way beef is
produced. However, if you were truely concerned with meat production you
would be part of the many that try to provide farmers with an alternative
way to produce beef. Grass-fed, no hormones, no antibiotics, natually
grazed. You won't, because instead, you follow your simple rule for your
simple mind, 'eat no meat.' Being vegan does not automatically mean
fewer animals die for your diet/lifestyle. killer.


Try this. It takes 7 times as much food to grow corn as to eat it.