Organic Food vs "standard" food -

Kitt3n, you can post the link provided it is not to a commercial website or link to another forum at all.

AngelPUnks, I don't agree with intensive feedlotting either, but it has become a necessary evil dictated by greedy consumers who cannot wait for the beef to grow in it's own time - they want it NOW! There is a feedlot not far from us who we have supplied grain to a few times and I had no idea just how large and miserable looking it was till they showed it on the local news in connection to thm having to lay off over 100 staff etc. It panned out across the feedlot and there was acre after acre after acre of cows in small yards, no grass, no trees and all the fences were lined with feed troughs. It would be a real depressing place to work I reckon. We have done a small feedlot for our lambs once, but they were in a small enclosure, surrounded by trees, grass underfoot and it didn't look anything like a 'traditional' feedlot. In the end the outcome was no different - they still grew at the same rate and sold for only slightly higher prices than when we haven't done a feedlot.