The Crucial Role Of Corn In Meat

Corn plays a crucial role in the lives of cows living in the industrial agricultural food system that many people have never thought about. It plays the role of feeding the cows we eat but, also causes them to become sick and bloated which can eventually lead to suffocation but, most importantly for us - as consumers of these cows – it can lead to the spreading of diseases through their feces which turns into E Coli and is deadly for humans. Corn is a relatively new cheap feed for cows so farmers use it, even though cows are not made to digest grains and can cause many problems for them. The corn may cause the cows to become sick because their bodies are not made to digest corn and the liquefied fat and protein supplements and then are given antibiotics to make them better and we are then eating the antibiotics. …show more content…
Most people do not look at the process of how the foods get from the farm to their plate and it is really concerning. This is a very important question because there is the simple alternative and old way of feeding cows - with grass - what they are naturally supposed to eat. Grass doesn’t have the additives that this corn does and it doesn’t make the cows sick. It is important because the farmers don’t care about the way the cows are brought up or their quality of life but the quantity they can produce the quickest in order to receive the maximum amount of money. They are not thinking about the lives of these cows but only the benefits they can produce for the human farmers’ bank accounts. Corn feeding is something that more people need to become aware of the pains it can cause for the cows and why it is being used as a