The step to become a vegetarian is very challenging. Organic beef is expensive compared to the standard beef. Standard beef nowadays weren’t fed with green grass anymore, but yellow corn. Importantly, the junk food restaurants such as McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King serve a whole other kind of beef.

History
Since the WWII, ranchers began feeding their cows with corn better known as the “corn finished cow”. The cows are fed almost only corn for anywhere from 60 to 120 days before they’re slaughtered. The corn rich diet fattens the cattle faster and allows for year round beef production in colder climates. The fatter corn fed cows have a more marbled meat than grass fed cows.
Prior to the WWII, most beef was “grass finished”. These cows were exclusively fed with grass from start to finish. Consequently the end product is a leaner but more natural beef.

The nature of cows
I don’t know about you, but I learned in school that cows eat grass. They even have 3 stomachs to later re-chew the grass they’ve stored in their stomach. These animals are built to eat grass NOT corn. As always humans find a way to freak things up. “Corn finishing” produces bigger, fatter cows in less time, corn isn’t a natural diet for cows, however. A study in 1998 revealed that cows fed on a natural grass diet had at least 80% less E. coli O157:H7 than grain fed cows.

What is E. coli O157:H7?
E. coli O157:H7 is a bacterium that can exist inside a cow without the cow exhibiting any signs of illness, as cows are immune to E. coli O157:H7’s damaging effects. The cows contracts this bacterium due to that the corn heavy diet acidifies the cow’s digestive tract.
Usually, the E. coli O157:H7 is killed by stomach acids even in us humans. Nevertheless, the increased acidity in the cow’s stomachs allows for the more acid resistant E. coli bacteria to survive and replicate. (Evolution) When these acid resistant E. coli enter the food supply, it is especially dangerous because a person’s main defense against E. coli, stomach acid, is now ineffective.
The mortality rates are higher when it comes to infants and young children contracting the bacterium.

Corporations’ solution
In order for the large corporations to keep feeding their cows with inexpensive corn all year long, they found a solution to the E. coli O157:H7 problem.  Meat filler! But what is it really? Oh you’re going to find this quite interesting. Meat fillers are ground beef in combination with ammonia (to kill salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 bacterium), gluten (binder), monosodium glutamate (known as MSG cancerous), additives such as magnesium and calcium, scrap meat (cows eye balls, intestines, brains, basically the stuff you wouldn’t buy to eat) and in some cases even cow excrement (yeah poop, shit). The most impressive stuff is that nearly all people know ammonia as a common household cleanser. But who knew, the burger you just ate yesterday at McDonald’s also contains ammonia!

What is being done about this?
Nothing! According to the FDA, to classified beef as meat, it must contain 40% ground beef. Unbelievable! Recently Taco Bell was sued by a group of people because after testing its beef, they found out that only 35% of the meat was actually beef and the rest filler. I have a better idea though, stop eating that crap! Quit the fast food industry! I’m 100% sure that the people owning these companies won’t even drink the soda they sell.

My point is
I know some or a lot of you (especially young people) do not care about this issue but starting to care about what you put in your body now will most probably safe you quite some trips to the doctor’s office in the future. Foods are only getting worse and worse. Chickens are pumped with so much hormones that they can hardly walk to produce cheap and large chicken breasts, while children are growing boobs  and getting their periods at eight or nine years old. Don’t even get me started on the overly stressed pigs they are producing now.

Switch to organic foods, eat as little meat as possible, for the consequences of your actions will award you dearly in health, the only thing that matters in life.

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