rick etter wrote:

"Beach Runner" wrote in message
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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.

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You'd better get off the illegal drugs, fool. Try to make sense next time.
It takes *no* food out of your mouth to raise beef cows. In fact in takes
*no* food that you could even eat! Are you really too stupid to understand
that cattle can graze in areas where you cannot grow your crop foods? Cows
can take that land, and the the natural growth and produce healthy, edible
foods with *no* inputs from the petro-chemical industry that you appear to
dearly love. Why is that? You a major stock-holder or something? You
can't be spewing this ignorance because of any so-called caring for animals,
as you prove with each inane post that animals really mean nothing to you.
Guess you just like all that blood on your hands for your entertainment, eh
killer?


Very simply, if people simply ate the food that was produced and fed to
cows, there would be much more food and less resources required. Of
course we are part of the cycle of life. Rick just happens to be an
incredibly nasty part of it, which I will ignore from now on.

Most crops grown and exported in the US are used for the manufacture of
meat production. It's an inefficient use of land and resources.

Rick also ignores the health consequences of consumption of beef on
diseases of the arteries and cancer. That's his choice.

It's also his choice to enter a forum of where veg*ns discuss their life
style, and chooses to be an SOB. That serves some kind of need for him.
Sad.

I choose to eat healthy, be a better citizen of the world, work out, and
not make slanderous accusations.


Ignoring him, corn is the most heavily subsidized food in America, which
is why it is in almost everything. For example, corn syrup and corn
starch are in many products. This greatly contributes to the obesity and
health problems American's face. Originally corn producers were paid
not to grow corn to keep the price up. Now they get huge subsidizes
and grow corn, most of it now genetically altered.


It's a sad fact.