By Jacob David
Ever wonder why your doctor says, “Stay away from red meat – beef?” Read on:
It is time to de – un – commercialize America. Food production in America and the gluttony for a quick buck has risen to dizzying heights, heightened to a level of infinite madness, yep, I called it right – the start of it is evident - the Mad Cow disease.
Also known as BSE – Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a slow progressive but surely degenerative, fatal disease that affects the central nervous system of adult cattle meant to be served as steak on fancy looking plates in high end restaurants.
So what’s the beef on your dinner plate? You might find yourself asking these questions: Where did it come from? How did it get there? What was it fed? Was it injected with hormones? Was it fed antibiotics? Was it force fed several times a day?
How is one to know?
While these are no scare tactics, the truth is already out there to see. Cattle have been slaughtered by the millions for fear of running the risk of cross contamination in England.
The OCI – office of criminal investigation has been deployed to study the alleged contamination of cow feed.
Cow feed in London was found contaminated by meat remnants and bone meal. Food processors mixed remnants of spinal cords and brains of other cows to the feed. The contaminated cattle protein feed is a modified form of protein called a Prion. It turns infectious and accumulates / clogs in neural tissues of cows causing fatal, degenerative, neurological disorder. When contaminated beef is eaten by humans it results in an extended form of madness now labeled as Creutzfeldt Jakob’s Disease or CJD.
Inflicting a form of self-cannibalism in cows has had its adverse effects. It has gotten the world running scared. All this frenzied commercialism has lost the market billions of dollars in wasted beef products and animals being killed.
The hurry from the birthing stall to the slaughter-house is impatient at that. Animals are kept penned, they lack proper exercise due to lack of movement, they are stressed and have weak muscles. The stalls where the cows are kept are usually unsanitary and unnatural – mostly designed by humans. And when a cow is kept in a conditioned environment and not a natural environment, it can confuse the animal.
A cow is a gentle animal. It is not to be hurried in its growth. Its natural food is fresh, sun fed grass and plenty of clean water. Cows cannot assimilate or digest grain or corn. Cows typically consume about 50 lbs of fresh foliage every day. While farmers find it difficult to find that type of foliage for hundreds of cows, they take the easy way out – feeding them corn and grain. These are unnatural foods for a cow’s stomach. It’s like digesting pebbles or small stones.
A cow has a four-chambered stomach. The largest stomach in the cow is called a rumen. It is home to billions of friendly microbes – bacteria, fungi and protozoa that provide the necessary help to convert grass into essential nutrients that the cow can digest. The temperature in a cow’s stomach is just toasty enough to process and breakdown natural grass, nothing heavier or more solid than grass – like corn or grain. Corn or grain have the consistency of pebbles and are harder to digest for a cow. The corn or grain is hormone injected to help quicken the process of meat slabbing.
The commercial business of feeding cows grain and corn was a quick fix way to fatten the cows for the dinner table. Scientists have now found out that feeding the cows corn and grain result in an unnatural marbling of fat on the meat. It means the cows end up at the slaughter house with more fat on its body than lean, strong meat. While the extra fat on the cow definitely fattens the commercial farmer’s wallet, it definitely brings in a string of diseases for the consumer of corn / grain fed beef.
From high blood pressure to heart disease, the unnatural fat in cow meat raised on corn and grain brings, it has become the red meat that doctors have warned many beef eaters to stay away from. Such corn fed meat is high in Omega 6’s that are the bad fatty acids that are unhealthy for the human body. The corn fed beef has excessive layers of fat that produce higher levels of Carcinogen when the meat is placed on the grill, exposed to high heat. These Carcinogenic levels give rise to cancerous cells in the human body. Studies on the digestive system of cows are underway to understand how it exactly works.
Several universities including researchers in Ohio State are now having fistulated cows – cows with windows / holes in their stomachs. This does not really hurt or pain the cow. Cows are fitted with Cannulas – a circular opening in the cow’s stomach that can be sealed, to help scientists study the digestive process of cows.
It also helps in saving sick cows that have had a depletion of rumen fluid – abundant in microbes. The donor cow with the window / hole in its stomach provides the necessary rumen fluid to bring back balance to sick cows. Once the rumen fluid is fed to the sick cows, it helps them get back on track. It restores their digestive system.
It has been identified that nothing is better for a cow than fresh grass. Companies like Tall Grass Beef started by Mr. Bill Kurtis believe in the traditional way of unhurried meat making. By involving the study of genetics and splicing the best genes in both grass and cows, he has been able to achieve what he wanted – the best tender tasting beef. Several ranchers and chefs concur on that. They have started a grass roots movement that could well be the dark black thunderous cloud on the horizon, one that threatens to rain on the commercial ranchers’ cow slaughter parade for quick profits.
From organic vegetables to farm raised cows, consumers are looking for untainted pure meat. Tall Grass Beef promises and delivers just that.
Also please read the related article, No Tall Claims! Just Pure Tall Grass Beef!
To read more visit www.tallgrassbeef.com
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Tallgrassbeef.com
Fda.gov/oc
Kidshealth.org
Thelantern.com
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Commtechlab.msu.edu
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Tamu.edu
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