Quotes Tagged With :meatpacking

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn....

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein....

A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company,....

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of....

It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows....