Please ponder this carefully for a few. Cows are ruminants. They have 7 stomachs. This unique digestive system allows them to eat grass. Few other animals can do that. They were designed that way -- either by God, or evolution, or God directing evolution. They were not made to eat high-protein grains, or other cows. The reason our food industry feeds cows corn (and other cows) is that it is a fast way to put a lot of weight on them. This is a good way to minimize time and maximize profit. However, after cows are fed hi-quality grains for any length of time, they get sick. Their stomachs were not designed to digest those foods. After they get sick they are fed medicines, antibiotics, etc. to keep them alive and gaining weight, and so that they can walk into the slaughterhouse. It is not ridiculous to assume that we, when eating them will also ingest those medicines. And who wants to eat sick cows? Corn fed cows are also detrimental energy-wise and health-wise. Corn represents a large expenditure of petroleum to make. It is another form of solid oil. Pastures are not oil. Heavily fertilized land is oil. Pastures are sunlight revealed. The difference between oil (irreplaceable stored sunshine) and growing plants (annual, replaceable stored sunshine) is that the former is capital, and the latter is income. We cannot continue to use oil as income, it is capital and once gone, gone. Finally, some concern has been expressed over the quality of beef fed with grains. For example, the ratio of Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils is not the same as grass-fed beef. This imbalance is reputed to cause obesity, heart attacks, diabetes, and contribute to our spiraling health care crisis. Please read the excellent book: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, 2006. Your eyes may be forced wide open to our food problems. Solutions: Demand and buy pasture-fed beef. Eat less beef, and instead have chicken or fish more often. Raise your own chickens. Your own rabbits. Plant that garden and fruit trees. Eat a more vegetarian diet. Soybeans are nearly the perfect plant food. Meat at one time was considered a side dish, and not our main course. Corn-fed beef is a media hype. High meat diets are media hype.