{"id":102529,"date":"2013-12-29T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2013-12-29T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:50:47","slug":"the-stuff-we-eat-in-our-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-stuff-we-eat-in-our-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stuff We Eat in Our Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones ran a piece this month, “5 Surprising Things We Feed Cows<\/a>.” Sawdust, chicken shit, candy, crab guts, ground limestone. Two things to note that are wrong with this piece. First, it’s not “we” – it’s the industrial system propped up by subsidies and government dictates favorable to unsustainable, unhealthy, industrial farming practices. The second mistake is leaving out the fact that\u00a0cows get fed dead cows<\/a>\u00a0that have been ground up.\u00a0Michael Pollan wrote about this<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0way back in 2002.<\/p>\n

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Of course the identical industrial logic — protein is protein — led to the feeding of rendered cow parts back to cows, a practice the F.D.A. banned in 1997 after scientists realized it was spreading mad-cow disease.<\/p>\n

…Until mad-cow disease, remarkably few people in the cattle business, let alone the general public, comprehended the strange semicircular food chain that industrial agriculture had devised for cattle (and, in turn, for us). When I mentioned to Rich Blair that I’d been surprised to learn that cows were eating cows, he said, ”To tell the truth, it was kind of a shock to me too.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Joel Salatin has also spoken about this often, except everything that he attempts to do outside of the industrial system, as a small grower,\u00a0is illegal.<\/a>\u00a0The demand for grass-fed beef is increasing exponentially, and the market response is\u00a0an upswing in suppliers<\/a>\u00a0who are\u00a0stewards of the land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones ran a piece this month, “5 Surprising Things We Feed Cows.” Sawdust, chicken shit, candy, crab guts, ground limestone. Two things to note that are wrong with this piece. First, it’s not “we” – it’s the industrial system propped up by subsidies and government dictates favorable to unsustainable, unhealthy, industrial farming practices. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}