In the States, cattle are fed on corn and thus be cheaply fattened before slaughter. Nonetheless, this would affect nutrition value of end products. Research suggest that, in contrary to cattle fed on grass, those fed on corn tend to have more artery-clogging saturated fat and contain less healthy substances like Omega3 fatty acid. In addition, the practice of feeding corn to cattle would also incur food safety problems. Cows, by evolution, are designed to eat grass instead of corn. However, corn is still widely used as feeding ingredient for its inexpensiveness. Corn actually does not agree with the cattle’s digestive system. It can acidify their pH-neutral tract. This thus fosters the survival and even mutation of bacteria. E-coli0157:H7, an acid resistant strain from E-coli, which is one of the numerous species of bacteria survived due to high-corn diet. E-coli0157:H7 is much more virulent and problematic than E-coli. Studies reveal that corn-fed cattle contain much more of this strain in their guts than their grass-fed counterparts. If consumers ingest such kind of contaminated beef, a large number of this strain would be able to survive in stomachs for months, causing an infection followed by acute kidney failures. In short, feeding cattle corn has profound implications on food
In the States, cattle are fed on corn and thus be cheaply fattened before slaughter. Nonetheless, this would affect nutrition value of end products. Research suggest that, in contrary to cattle fed on grass, those fed on corn tend to have more artery-clogging saturated fat and contain less healthy substances like Omega3 fatty acid. In addition, the practice of feeding corn to cattle would also incur food safety problems. Cows, by evolution, are designed to eat grass instead of corn. However, corn is still widely used as feeding ingredient for its inexpensiveness. Corn actually does not agree with the cattle’s digestive system. It can acidify their pH-neutral tract. This thus fosters the survival and even mutation of bacteria. E-coli0157:H7, an acid resistant strain from E-coli, which is one of the numerous species of bacteria survived due to high-corn diet. E-coli0157:H7 is much more virulent and problematic than E-coli. Studies reveal that corn-fed cattle contain much more of this strain in their guts than their grass-fed counterparts. If consumers ingest such kind of contaminated beef, a large number of this strain would be able to survive in stomachs for months, causing an infection followed by acute kidney failures. In short, feeding cattle corn has profound implications on food