Cows fed with M&M's and potato chips

The healthiest beef (or, since we are speaking of red meat, we should say “the less noxious beef”) comes from grass fed cows. But, since this is the most expensive way of feeding a cow, most of the farmers feed their animals exclusively on corn (some of them use chemical food, so even worse than corn). The corn has not only the price advantage, but it also makes the cows grow faster and it makes the meat fattier. All these besides weakening the animals’ bones and removing the little nutrients the beef had in the beginning. But as a farmer you get more beef in less time and this is the most important thing, right?

But now the corn is getting more expensive. Wall Street Journal has made a feature report about farmers feeding the cows with sweets (M&M's, Hershey's...) and potato chips… It these products can be called “food”… Actually they are wastes from the junk food factories. Junk-food (sweets and chips) becomes fast-food (in burgers) in a tragically-comical way.

Cows aren’t meant to eat corn anyway, never mind chocolate and potato chips. Cows are meant to eat grass. But feeding cows with grass raises the beef “production” cost and so it is inefficient. You need plenty of fields (that would be more money worthy used in agriculture), hay for winter, and the growing rate of the grass fed cows is not that phenomenal as the one of the corn fed cows. But the meat of the grass fed cows still has some little nutrients left… and it does not contain petroleum based fertilizer, used in corn production.