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      149 days ago

      This is exactly how we used to treat a collapsed lung in humans, sometimes still do. Been there, would rather have been poked with that method than the giant tube up my side to the top of my lung.

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      499 days ago

      Helping it not die from internal gas build up is horrifying? That sounds like an awful way to go.

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        199 days ago

        I suspect they mean that their force fed diet that’s causing an excess of methane buildup on the regular is the issue, not so much the pressure valve release situation happening in this video.

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          149 days ago

          Theyre typically fed corn because it is cheaper, easy to store and transport and it makes beef taste “better”. Cows are supposed to eat grass, not corn.

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            168 days ago

            Pedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.

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              88 days ago

              Corn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating.

              Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.

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                AfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.

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                58 days ago

                Not quite the same way. Bread and sugar are products we make from grasses (wheat & sugar cane).

                High fructose corn syrup is grass in the same way as sugar and bread, and beer for that matter.

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                  48 days ago

                  It has been cultivated to produce huge starchy kernels and is then refined to remove all other parts.

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            78 days ago

            From what I’ve heard from farmers, the really good beef is grass fed and then corn/grain finished. So the animal eats grass most of their life, and then for a little while before slaughter they are fed corn to build up their fat content.

            Could be wrong, but I’ve had multiple people who raised cows tell me this diet plan.