Junk Food Fed Livestock
Dwight Hess, a cattle feedlot operator in Marietta, Pa., is located in the heart of snack country, near Hershey and Herr Foods Inc., a maker of potato chips, pretzels and snack mixes. His cattle ration consists of about 17% "candy meal," a blend of chocolate bars and large chunks of chocolate; 3% of what he calls "party mix," a blend of popcorn, pretzels, potato chips and cheese curls; 8% corn gluten; and the remainder corn and barley he grows. He says the byproducts save him about 10% on feed costs. Still, it costs him about 65 cents to put a pound on a steer, up from 42 cents last year.
No mention of how these animals taste compared to their corn-fed counterparts. [via The Food Section]
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6 Comments:
In that area of PA corn is abundant and plentiful. With the trouble with wheat and corn glutens and feed I just can see his point. But I thought animals could not eat chocolate and that it was toxic to them.
Obviously this cattle is not "organic".
JerzeeTomato at 12:32PM on 05/22/07
Is there no grass in PA?
megnut at 12:50PM on 05/22/07
My guess is that the meat would taste sweeter ;)
On another note, it's rather fitting that even American cattle are now eating junkfood.
Adam Kuban at 2:09PM on 05/22/07
Hmmm...if sheep that graze on salt marshes and rosemary tasty salty and herby, would this mean chocolatey beef? What is the world coming to?
izzy's mama at 4:46PM on 05/22/07
Just imagine the cow patties. Wonder what kind of fertilizer that would make?
What kind of weird milk/cheese could be made from this cattle?
Wonder if their offspring craves junk food?
Do they have mood swings?
Bottles the mind...
hereandthe at 12:59PM on 05/23/07
I'm a few miles from Marietta, maybe I can do a SE investigation. :)
Prairie at 5:08PM on 05/23/07