Saturday, June 17, 2006
What Is A Life Worth?
I heard about this on NPR Science Friday This is an old story but I just heard it through a podcast so it is new to me.
They had a author who wrote a book about the problem with the way we live today.
The main part of the book is how much fuel we use to grow plants and why things have changed from how they were 50 years ago.
The one sad thing and this is the reason that I would like people to link to this blog is that:
We today feed cows corn and corn and more corn and that almost all we feed them. This is because the corn is cheap and fills the cows up. Now the worst part is that the worst form of E. Coli which isE. Coli 0157 which if you get can kill you. It had not been seen before the 50's and the reason is if the cows eat grain (wheat, grass, NOT corn) for just 5 days before they go to slaughter they will not have that form of E. Coli in the beef.
The worst part of this is that the cattle men know this fact but because it is cheaper to feed them corn so they do even though they KNOW the facts about the risks.
So when you think about it they feel the risk to human live that the E. Coli causes in worth the money they make by feeding the cows the cheap feed.
So PLEASE spead the word. What I hope is that if more people know either they will talk out and make the cattle men change or turn to other places to get there beef.
If you want to read the book it is theThe Omnivore's Dilemma which takes about not just about this but also the circle of corn and the fact that today the Mid-West can't feed itself because all they grow is feed corn and soybeans and why that is. The good thing is that he also shows people who are doing things differently. The thing is he also deals how much diesel fuel we use to feed are selves.
They had a author who wrote a book about the problem with the way we live today.
The main part of the book is how much fuel we use to grow plants and why things have changed from how they were 50 years ago.
The one sad thing and this is the reason that I would like people to link to this blog is that:
We today feed cows corn and corn and more corn and that almost all we feed them. This is because the corn is cheap and fills the cows up. Now the worst part is that the worst form of E. Coli which is
The worst part of this is that the cattle men know this fact but because it is cheaper to feed them corn so they do even though they KNOW the facts about the risks.
So when you think about it they feel the risk to human live that the E. Coli causes in worth the money they make by feeding the cows the cheap feed.
So PLEASE spead the word. What I hope is that if more people know either they will talk out and make the cattle men change or turn to other places to get there beef.
If you want to read the book it is the
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