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.
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.