I do want to continue the discussion, I have been tied up with a new baby. I live in the number one egg producing state in the nation, Iowa. The facts about yolks and chickens are pretty neat, there are a bunch of facts most consumers don't know about where their food comes from. I agree you can look up on all kinds of stuff online, just be careful you get an accurate picture of what your looking at before you pass judgment. I not opposed to eating niche market products, I just prefer to support sustainable ag practices. It really bothers me that the organic, natural, niche market folks talk about not using any drugs or other additives, what happens when your livestock gets sick? How do you treat them to get them healthy again?
My in-laws own a run a commercial dairy, my family runs beef cattle with a finishing facility, while I consult cow calf and feedlots. I'm really excited to talk about the practices we use to produce food in safe wholesome manner for my family and yours.
I get really fired up about all the negative propaganda produced and disseminated by anti animal ag and some niche groups looking to end sustainable ag practices. If I wanted to send time online getting my self scared into not eating any farm products I could in a few hours with all of the misleading information that's published in the internet. Not everything online is true, and some people make it hard to discern what is and what isn't to promote their own agenda.
If you'd like to learn more about where and how your food is produced there are many great resources from Land grant universities to commodity organizations. (
www.Beef.org, Iowa Egg Council, National Pork Producers) Or come visit me or a local farmers in you area that's producing food and ask us to explain our practices, we have nothing to hide.
On a side note the puss comment, whether your organic or conventional cows can develop a condition called mastitis. Puss is a produced by cows with mastitis, when a cow is diagnosed with Mastitis she is milked separately from the rest of the herd and her milk is disposed of never making it into the food supply, until she is nursed back to health. How do you mange cows with mastitis in your herd?
Antibiotics are another misunderstood hot button topic that needs more explanation and education to help our consumers to understand why we use them and when we use them. We use antibiotics in a judiciously manner in our operation, to keep our livestock healthy and not to incur more cost than necessary.
Hormones- if your worried about hormones, you better stay away from cabbage, there's more hormones in one head of cabbage than a whole implanted steer. Do you take birth control? You'd have to eat 3400lb of beef per day to get the same effect as one birth control pill. If anyone's interested I can post a link to some research looking at hormones in meat and other common foods.
I'm not looking to pick a fight, but what industry do you work in? Are there things about your profession or business consumers don't understand, or do you have a few bad industry people that give you a bad rap that's not necessarily true of you and your business?
Please continue to seek out the truth in food production from sources that are credible and not driven by an agenda. We (producers of food) are all in this together, so lets find a way to feed a hungry nation, safe wholesome products grown in the United States of America.
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