People are being FORCED to overeat ?????

Rubbish.

But I agree with your points about factory farming. America can afford better.

Corn-fed beef, for example, would not be possible at current prices without the enormous subsidy, not only for the corn, but in forgiving the social costs. Feedlots are currently the largest consumers of antibiotics in the U.S., meaning not only that we eat a lot of very sick cows, but also that feedlots are breeding antibiotic-resistant super germs, and providing the motivation for (without paying) finding more and more antibiotics.

Why are the cows so sick? Because they’re designed to eat grass, not corn. Corn turns their naturally basic stomachs acidic, giving them ulcers and illness galore. The germs from ruminants basic stomachs that we’d naturally resist are therefore being bred for an acid environment — like our stomachs.

The pork CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) put out literally ten times the amount of animal waste that an equivalent number of humans do. Having 500,000 pigs in such a collection of CAFOs — without treating their waste — is a commonplace. Imagine New York City without treated sewage… If permitting that without charging for the social costs isn’t a subsidy, I don’t know what it is.

So yes, corn and the food that eats corn is cheap, but it has cost us obesity, an epidemic of type II diabetes, and a host of other chronic illnesses.

Let’s not be too cocksure this is a good thing, shall we?

Corn-fed beef, for example, would not be possible at current prices without the enormous subsidy, not only for the corn, but in forgiving the social costs. Feedlots are currently the largest consumers of antibiotics in the U.S., meaning not only that we eat a lot of very sick cows, but also that feedlots are breeding antibiotic-resistant super germs, and providing the motivation for (without paying) finding more and more antibiotics.

Why are the cows so sick? Because they’re designed to eat grass, not corn. Corn turns their naturally basic stomachs acidic, giving them ulcers and illness galore. The germs from ruminants basic stomachs that we’d naturally resist are therefore being bred for an acid environment — like our stomachs.

The pork CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) put out literally ten times the amount of animal waste that an equivalent number of humans do. Having 500,000 pigs in such a collection of CAFOs — without treating their waste — is a commonplace. Imagine New York City without treated sewage… If permitting that without charging for the social costs isn’t a subsidy, I don’t know what it is.

So yes, corn and the food that eats corn is cheap, but it has cost us obesity, an epidemic of type II diabetes, and a host of other chronic illnesses.

Let’s not be too cocksure this is a good thing, shall we?

If you cut Rural Agricultural America away from society We’ll bust your ass as you drive out for food, we will know who you are assholes. You have no clue how to grow the chit that keeps your ass alive in your metro world.

Remember who feeds you and it and it ain’t that worthless american dollar in you pocket,

You couldn’t produce pig chit all you can can do is talk chit

I wish it were otherwise. Hey, show me I’m wrong. Make my day.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-goldilocks-can-handle-3-gas.html

Then try to explain how the average citizen had become so accustommed to having multiple amusement sources close at hand that we regard them as a requirement of life. Can anyone born after 1985 in other than severe poverty imagine not having a small library of their favorite movies on video tape or disc? Yet, an old fogey like me in his early 40s still gets a tiny thrill from the idea of having all this at his beck and call.

Based on what I’ve read, and on what my parents have told me, one-third to one-half the pre-World War II households grew and hunted their own food – or at least a significant portion of what they consumed. 80 years ago rural folks across the South obtained most of their protein from the woods or rivers and from the barnyard. Such foods would not have been included in the department of Agriculture’s food expenditure statistics. Very few households today butcher hogs, milk cows, and clean fish.