to counteract my rant---something that makes me happy:)

I'm sitting here in panera studying when a 45-50year old man starts talking to a 60 year old man about how feedlot beef cattle and other industrial meat animals have the shaft. Feedlot lot beef cattle are fed a diet of pretty much pure corn and antibiotics. Feeding cattle pure corn produces stomach ulcers in cattle. These stomach ulcers are extremely painful and allow bacteria into the animals' bloodstream which can cause a miriad of problems and ultimately death. The antibiotics, labeled "growth promotants" are needed to counteract the ulcers to allow the cattle to live long enough to slaughter. If the cattle were allowed to live longer, the antibiotics wouldn't be able to last that long and the cattle would die of rumenal ulcers. The reason cattle are fed a diet of pure corn is to get them to grow faster so they can go to slaughter faster....less time spent raising the cattle means more money for the feedlot owner.

anyway--i'm sitting listening to this conversation in the conservative city of milwaukee and it makes me happy to hear that people are thinking:)

if this is news to you, here is a good, reliable link to read about it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/industrial/