Adding in additional substances to the cows corn diet, such as remnant cow parts, has led to e-coli out breaks in humans and continued to spread mad cow disease. One such victim of e-coli poisoning was Kevin Kowalcyk at the age of two. He ingested e-coli O 157 H7 in a contaminated hamburger he ate in 2001; which developed into hemolytic-uremic syndrome and resulted in his death twelve days later. Unfortunately the beef was not recalled until 16 days after his death. This was probably due to the fact that cattle at CAFO’s spend all their time held up in concentrated pens standing in their own feces.
Overpopulation of deer results in lack of food for the deer. The starving animals migrate toward domestic garden crops. Deer are not afraid to roam into suburban neighborhoods if there is evidence of food. It not only ruins homeowner’s crops, but it also places danger on families and their children playing outside. Taylor and Francis state: “Holsworth (1973) reported the results of a controlled hunt on the Griffith Island where the deer population was reduced from about 300 to 100 during eight hunting trips between October 1962 and April 1968 (Taylor and Francis 1).” Hunting provides incomparably healthier meat than the average processed meat.
Since the ranchers trusted their foremen, most ranchers did not stay on their ranch except during shipping season. Foremen would find new born cattle and brand them with their own brand on their rancher’s property. The Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers Association (NWFSGA) was created out of anger from the rustlers, and tried to kill the seventy rustlers that they identified in Johnson County. The small compilation of rustling ended up in bloodshed. On April 9, 1892, NWFSGA members surrounded a cabin at the KC Ranch looking for Nate Champion.
In the United States one million animals are slaughtered every hour and around ten billion farm animals will be raised and slaughtered annually. Due to the high demand of meat, almost every animal used in food production has suffered inhumane treatment from overcrowding, confinement,
Goodnight bought and ran a ranch for 11 years, he cross bread Hereford and Texas longhorns to provide a cow that was tough but had good meat and ran a herd of about 100,00 cattle. He used the money he made to buy the bests lands with the best water and agreed to sell cattle to the Indians. He soon realised that by taking his cattle to the markets in the north, he could sell them for more money. He found a trail and began selling them, this is one of the reasons why cattle ranching changed so much between 1865 and 1895 because the cattle drives came in which allowed the ranchers to sell their cattle for more money in the North. But these trails for the ranchers were just to the nearest railroads and didn't really have anywhere to store the vast amounts of cattle.
For example, in Indonesia many people settle near Mount Merapi because of the rich and fertile soil favoured for farming. As Indonesia is a poor country many people rely on subsistence farming, therefore are willing to risk everything by settling beside a volcano. Furthermore, in the last eruption in 2010 360,000 people were displaced from their homes, meaning not only did they lose their home but also their livelihood; hundreds also lost their lives. Therefore, the hazards posed could have been minimalised if people chose to settle elsewhere. However, this isn’t the same all around the world due to different types of volcanoes.
Today the top Four companies (Tyson, Cargrill, JBS and National Beef) control more than 80% of the worlds meat market. With such high demands on these companies to produce so much, there are compromises that are made. These companies treat their livestock, and employees in a horrific and sickening manner. The animals are fed mostly corn products and given antibiotics daily. Most animals stand knee high in their own feces all of the time.
Cattle were often left dead and rotting among the other cattle, in the pens, and where they grazed. Horses were also sometimes used after they had died and ground into fertilizer. This was also true for pigs, goats, sheep, and lamb. When they were packaged, diseased or not, the consumer would rarely get what they paid for. A pound of lamb could have easily been a goat, canned meats were usually and still are to this day a smorgasbord of normally unusable animal parts, and for a period of time beef was substituted with horse.
If you want you can go to the farmers market and get some grass-fed beef or there are stores like Whole Foods that carry grass-fed beef. Grass-fed beef does sells for about one dollar more per pound and steaks are sold at about double the normal price of corn-fed but there are ways to eat grass-fed and not have to spend a lot more for it. One way to save money according to Eisenbraun is “Buy cuts on the bone; processors usually charge extra for deboning or consider buying beef directly from a local farmer, which can be as cheap as five dollars a pound. Many farmers will also allow customers to visit the farm to ensure that the cattle are being raised in healthy conditions” (Eisenbraun 1). Bottom line America, spend the extra money and feed your family healthy, grass-fed
Many fruits and vegetables have a certain time of year that they are plentiful however they are now modified to ripen before their season. The majority of the meats in the meat department are boneless. Hamburgers have E. coli and it has proven to be fatal. Soy and corn are patented and owned by the world’s largest genetically modified organism company in the world Monsanto. Farmers are persecuted and sued for accidentally infringing on Monsanto’s seed “rights”.