Quotes Tagged With :meatpacking

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

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

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....