They assessed a ‘balanced’ fastfood diet – soda (100% corn). milk shake (78% corn). salad dressing (65%). chicken nuggets (56%). cheeseburger (52%). Freedom fries (23%)

And before you tuck into another Hooter’s hamburger, here’s what else they feed those poor animals besides corn – beef tallow recycled from the slaughterhouse, feather meal and chicken litter, chicken meat, fish and pig meal. Plus heaps of antibiotics to stop them from becoming sick from eating such crap food.

And because there’s often shit in the meat becuase they process them so quickly in the slaughterhouses, they have to irradiate it to sterilize it and stop it giving you E. coli when you eat it.

Then there’s the waste from these “Confined Animal Feeding Operations”. Lagoons of effluent which can’t be used as fertiliser as the nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that spraying them on crops would kill them. Feedlot waste also has heavy metals, hormone residues and persistent chemicals that end up in waterways downstream, where fish exhibit abnormal sex characteristics. Cow manure has been turned into toxic waste.

I guess the light at the end of the tunnel is that soon they’ll divert all the corn into bio fuel production (using nearly one drum of petroleum to produce one drum of bio fuel – go figure…). Which I guess means the poor cows will just be left with feathers and chicken litter to eat….

Rant over.