Have you heard either of these things about cattle and or beef?

Question

First I heard on the radio the other day that the packing houses are injecting our meat with CARBON DIOXIDE so it will stay red longer. (they are also injecting pork)

Second, I saw the woman that is the head of PITA on Bill Maher one night and she said the number one reason for Global Warning was "CATTLE FEEDLOTS". That all these large cattle feedlots are creating hugh amounts of Methane which is worse on our enviroment than cars, pollution, etc. Also, she made a very good point, we are putting hundreds of pounds of grains into cattle to get out one pound of meat. Think of all the hungry people we could feed. I know this to be true cause I worked at a feedlot for awhile.

What do you think about these two things?

If cattle are fed at a feedlot yes they are fed huge amounts of grain to get a pound or two of beef. I know this to be true, I worked at a feedlot for five or six years.

excuse me I meant to say Carbon Monoxide.

And the methane problem is because of the huge groups of cattle in these feedlots, where talking up to 50,000 or more in one feedlot.

Answer 1

Peta doesn't want us to eat cows.....thats the issue. THey realized most of us don't really care about the life of a cow. So they need us to care about something else...that reaches their goal.

Methane is definitely one of our worst greenhouse gases....worse than CO2. Landfills produce a lot of methane, and what we do now typically is just burn it and turn it into CO2.....we rather have CO2 in our atmosphere than the methane.

Now....The figure that the methane from cows is worse than the cars.........that is a figure out there, but its highly debated......a fart and a burp are very different in composition, except that figure comes from assuming a fart and a burp are the same. Peta more than happily accepts it.....they are not scientists though. Really we have no idea and its tough to actually measure that.

I get what you're saying....we feed cows more and only get a few pounds out of it......as a result they pass gas more often.....but really this won't be making much of a difference. The biggest problem with cows is the human population. Our population is increasing and a result we need to have more cows. Peta won't win on this argument though.

Also realize that since we are doing it.....its economically efficient. The revenue from those few extra pounds is more than the cost of the grain.

We could be feeding that grain to starving people...but someone is still paying for that grain....so it ends up being a donation. Considering they are not donating that extra revenue...its hard to believe they would've donated the grain to begin with.

Peta also doesn't mention the potential out of the methane. its already being done...along with the land fills....to basically use the methane to generate electricity. Ok so we still produce CO2, but then the already existing power plants don't need to produce as much electricity...basically balances out while we get rid of the methane.
They also don't mention.....methane is produced by bacteria in the colon.......put antibiotics in the feed and the bacteria dies....no methane. These are easier and more reasonable solutions than to stop eating cows.

The carbon monoxide injected into meat........its really not an issue. There is nothing really more to say....

Answer 2

I did hear that the put carbon manoxide in beef to make it red.I dont doubt that ,as far as the methane from feed lots being the greatest factor in global warming,she is full of ****.yes they stink ,but most people in china have never tasted beef until reasantlybecause they could not afford it ,India dosnt eat beef they consider the cow sacrad ,and both of these countrys are major offenders as far as green house gases go.and the grain they use for feed lots is usually of poor quality,that the farmers didnt sell to the people food producers.thats one reason that they feed so much is because it is of such poor nutritional value .PETA, is a bunch of wacko that have to much time on their hands.and they will say anything to furture tthier cause.

Answer 3

Both valid points. Not just the carbon dioxide content but hormones as well. I've lived a relatively long life and seen the effects that hormone injections into livestock can bring into the human consumption end of things. We have very young women who are "abnormally" endowed with womanly comeliness despite their genetic background. We have very young men who also seem endowed with their own "attributes". And in all cases it seems directly related to the "additives" put in the diet of all livestock-for-consumption. I think the vast majority of people know well what goes on on mass-production farms as well as the average feed-lot. It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure it out. Higher production sacrifices quality. That's the nature of things.

Answer 4

"Methane ...... is worse on our enviroment than cars"?
And you believe this?
What do you want to do? Modify cattle genes so they DON'T produce methane? LOL. ALL cattle have been producing methane since the beginning of creation, my dear. It's all natural.

And the Co2 thingy - what's you point?
YOU - a human being - breathe out CO2 everyday.

May be you are being sarcastic about what you are saying - and I hope you are because what you sited is a load of .....
(the stuff that produces methane) LOL

Answer 5

I live on a farm In NZ and we have more than enough grass to sustain our animals, we dont use grain
Our meat is killed on the farm so their is no chance of our 100%Kiwi beef being injected with any crap.

Answer 6

Sounds exaggerated to me--cow methane is much less than industrial pollution and that grain to meat ratio sounds off, too. No offense.

Answer 7

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals.. I'm a red meat eater!

Answer 8

1) It's true, but you shouldn't be buying bright red beef anyway, it should be a dull red colour, which shows it has been properly hung & matured

2) PETA will say anything to try to have a go at meat eaters, ignore them

Answer 9

Yes to both.

Answer 10

I think they are delicious

I also know people exaggerate to prove something they are zealous about.