Yes, I mentioned that in an earlier post...I also mentioned that it's not what the livestock should be eating in the first place. Cows should be eating grass.
To my knowledge, most cattle isn't pasture fed for life. I can only imagine the havoc wreaked on the industry if it was.
Forcefeeding corn to cows was a byproduct of the fact that corn was being overproduced and they had to find something to do with it....beef farmers realized that they could fatten up cows quick with it, and saw it as a win-win (without any regard to the fact that corn-fed beef isn't necessarily a good thing for people to be eating anyway)
Thanks for your opinion.
Corn syrup is over-added to most processed foods and isn't necessary in the amounts that they're adding it (or at all for that matter).
Again, thanks for your opinion.
The beef industry wouldn't go bust...cows don't need to eat corn (it's not their natural diet).
I don't see how that matters if most cattle is corn fed now.
The rest of your post is basically a logical fallacy. There's no rational reason to think that if we stopped subsidizing corn, that the rest of the food industry would collapse like a house of cards into some "broccoli & turnip" disaster in a year. That's nonsense.
That's because you don't really understand free markets.
We used to be the biggest automobile producing nation on the planet. Now, not so much.
We can afford to lose an industry like automobiles but we cannot afford to lose agriculture.
I'll try to explain it as simply as I can....let's say we stop propping up corn and soy, we open the market completely. The next year the Chinese market overproduces and drives prices down....or some fungus destroys a part of the corn crop....and 1000 farms go bust.
Maybe 100 of those farms reinvest and try their luck with a different crop....the other 900 sell their land and machinery and it gets turned into condos and parking lots.
This continues for 5 years and the next thing you know, instead of only importing 30% of our fruits and vegetables....we're depending on foreign food sources for 40%.
We may be able to sustain 40%....but at some point, whether it's 50% or 60% or whatever (we actually are at 30% now) we're in catastrophic trouble. All it would take is one major event to put our nation in a serious crisis. It's not like cell phones, or some other factory made widget that we don't need....it's
food. I can't eat someone's Art History degree....I can't eat someone's hip replacement.
The only comparable industry that comes to mind is the weapons industry. We cannot afford to become dependent upon foreign sources for things like bullets, guns, and bombs.
I mean seriously, do you know how many wars were fought over food? Seige warfare itself was entirely built around controlling food sources. WW2 was basically built around the pretext of controlling farmland.
I feel like I'm explaining the painfully obvious. It's fun to watch you claim that free markets won't destroy the food industry...but I don't trust your amateur opinion.
