This has the added side effect of making all the animal products have more Omega 6 fats and fewer Omega 3 fats. One of the reasons the western diet is so fattening is because we're eating way too many Omega 6 fats and too little Omega 3s. It should be close to a 1 to 1 ratio, but we're averaging about a 16 to 1 ratio. Feeding our animals a grain diet negatively affects their meat, fat, milk, eggs, and butter.
Grass fed animal products are much better for people.
Unhealthy oils are soy, canola, corn, "vegetable", and sunflower, which almost all processed foods used. Healthier oils are coconut, avocado, olive, butter, and lard.
Yes! It’s cheap and subsidized. The Tyson farmers for example bought family run chicken farms and institutionalized their feeding and farming practices into this battery raised machine - that by the way is extremely disgusting and sad-
The reason for feeding grains is that it grows bulk fast and as far as the eye can see where I live there’s 4 crops: corn, soybeans, winter wheat, and sugar beets.
Livestock only live 1-2 years. But these animals aren’t designed to eat like this. You do know that, right? Neither are we.
There’s just a lot to this industry. But I am a huge fan of being a carnivore. The system is just really fucked up. Homesteading seems to understand the circle of sustenance with manure, soil, animal husbandry etc.
The mono agriculture method is factory food and it needs a lot of chemicals to make it work. What happens when supply chains break down.
You do know most livestock are fed mostly grain.
To make them fat.
This has the added side effect of making all the animal products have more Omega 6 fats and fewer Omega 3 fats. One of the reasons the western diet is so fattening is because we're eating way too many Omega 6 fats and too little Omega 3s. It should be close to a 1 to 1 ratio, but we're averaging about a 16 to 1 ratio. Feeding our animals a grain diet negatively affects their meat, fat, milk, eggs, and butter.
Grass fed animal products are much better for people.
Unhealthy oils are soy, canola, corn, "vegetable", and sunflower, which almost all processed foods used. Healthier oils are coconut, avocado, olive, butter, and lard.
Yes! It’s cheap and subsidized. The Tyson farmers for example bought family run chicken farms and institutionalized their feeding and farming practices into this battery raised machine - that by the way is extremely disgusting and sad- The reason for feeding grains is that it grows bulk fast and as far as the eye can see where I live there’s 4 crops: corn, soybeans, winter wheat, and sugar beets. Livestock only live 1-2 years. But these animals aren’t designed to eat like this. You do know that, right? Neither are we. There’s just a lot to this industry. But I am a huge fan of being a carnivore. The system is just really fucked up. Homesteading seems to understand the circle of sustenance with manure, soil, animal husbandry etc.
The mono agriculture method is factory food and it needs a lot of chemicals to make it work. What happens when supply chains break down.
I am a small scale pasture farmer and animal husbandman producing vegetables, psstured turkey, and forage fed beef and milk. I know.
Truth is that some grain is still needed, especially from soy or wheat or something with rarer as amino acid.
Soy is a legume not a grain. I advocate feeding certain livestock soybean meal. There is no husk or oils, full of protein, and cheap.
Functionally any seed that is used as feed is a grain.
Grains do not need to be from the grass family.
Buckwheat, Quoina, Amaranth, and probably others I don't know about are all considered grains.
Field peas, peanuts, lentils, cowpeas, and other legumes are used as grains and feed for both man and beast.