Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed

PolygamousRanchKid writes "As the worst drought in half a century has ravaged this year's U.S. corn crop and driven corn prices sky high, the market for alternative feed rations for beef and dairy cows has also skyrocketed. Brokers are gathering up discarded food products and putting them out for the highest bid to feed lot operators and dairy producers, who are scrambling to keep their animals fed. In the mix are cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops, orange peels, even dried cranberries. Cattlemen are feeding virtually anything they can get their hands on that will replace the starchy sugar content traditionally delivered to the animals through corn. Operators must be careful to follow detailed nutritional analyses for their animals to make sure they are getting a healthy mix of nutrients, animal nutritionists caution. But ruminant animals such as cattle can safely ingest a wide variety of feedstuffs that chickens and hogs can't. The candy and cookies are only a small part of a broad mix of alternative feed offerings for cattle. Many operators use distillers grains, a byproduct that comes from the manufacture of ethanol."

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NOOOOOO!

[SmallFurryCreature]

Don't mix it. Get a real quality piece of meat, a small one and prepare it all on its own and eat it and enjoy it. Don't smother it in gravy or buy it by the kilo. Good things are best enjoyed in small amounts, like a fine whiskey or an excellent wine. You don't mix a fine wine through your spaghetti do you? Dump a fine single malt into coca cola do you?

Oh wait, your American. You probably do.

Nuke the entire continent from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Why do you think fine food comes in small portions, because can you can enjoy the singular taste at its best without it being drowned out by your vomiting as your stomach refuses to accept anymore.

Oh and good beef is raised on fucking grass. And has run around for a couple of years so it has some texture and taste.

I have been to America, it is not a place for people with functioning taste buds. Those steaks you see that are so big? In Europe it would be cut in small bits and sold as either for soup or pet food. It really isn't fine meat. But it is big. Which means you spend a lot of time trying to get it down and then to get it to stay down.

If you ever have to stay in the US, find a fucking immigrant the first day then follow him to wear he eats, kill him for his meal (you are doing him a favor, if he was left alive, he too would be turned) and eat it. 2nd generation lost all sense of taste. 3rd generation thinks there is such a thing as a quality fastfood restaurant.

If you EVERY see two people argue over which fastfood restaurant is the best, the Genevieve convention commands you to kill them both.