Hello Savannah. Thanks for your comment. [btw, the person's username was savannahhateshillbillies :roll: ]
However I have to say this: I'm afraid your wrong. ALL wrong. See, cattle, which are ruminants, are built to eat plants that we as humans cannot digest, such as the stems of wheat and oats, and most importantly grass. We can only eat the grains, the seeds that come from these plants, after grinding them up to flour and discarding the more unpalatable plant material to be thrown away. So not ALL of the food that is used to feed a cow can be used to feed several starving people. Oh and one other thing: If we're just going to be feeding people, look at all the fuel we'll be using up, all the soil that can just up and disappear like it did in the '30s, and (whoa!) we'll be accelerating global warming trends more'n ever. Now, not that I'm supporting grass-fed beef, but look at it this way: cattle convert grass into food (beef) more efficiently than the man-made way. First, they put nutrients back into the soil without having us to pay high $$$$ for fertilizer to do the same job. Second, they don't require as much maintenance as say a tractor and a drill seeder. Third, and probably the most important, they don't need gas. They're only "gas" to make them "run" is the grass they eat.
Wow, isn't that amazing!
The second thing I want to address in your meat-bashing post is that cattle or any livestock are NOT innocent animals, by any means. They are animals that deserve respect, and are not meant to be pets because the only thing on their minds is to eat and mate. A cow can kill you if you got her riled up and cornered: the same with an angry steer, and even worse, a massive 2500 lb bull. Oh, and they can create hell for you when they decide to jump the fence and wreck havoc all over the countryside and in yours or your neighbour's flower beds, OR, in their nice weed-free feild full of wheat. Now do you think of them innocent??! And as for the helpless people end of things, people are only helpless if they are bound to a wheelchair with a disease that renders their muscular activity useless, or if they are paralyzed from the neck down from a car accident (or any other accident) that have rendered them helpless. Helpless is a pretty petty term to use for a species of mammals that have evolved and grew in size (population-speaking) to "overpower" the world. And even those that have been bound to wheelchairs have been capable of doing some extraorindary things that would make someone like you reconsider what you just said.
And no we stockmen ain't a bunch of "scummy" hillbillies. Why, even the most scummiest of hillbillies are more capable and responsible for looking after their animals more than people like you. It's called dedication and responsibility. And we "scummy hillbillies" ain't hypocrites either.
So if you're gonna come on here and just type on the keyboard telling us the same or similar junk you just wrote, all for your own benefit only and to self-righteousize youself, just beware that you yourself could very well get bashed, and bashed hard.
In other words, if you don't got nothing nice to say don't say nothing at all; or, if you don't got anything that contributes to the factors of promoting the raising of cattle, get out, please.
I love Alberta beef, always have, always will.
