Effect of grain on livestock

It’s interesting to think about why farmers feed grain (including corn) to livestock: they do it to make them fat.  Grain-fed livestock don’t just “mature early”; they’re obese.  Unfortunately, feeding them grain also weakens their immune systems and makes them prone to infection, which is why they require antibiotics.  Grass-fed livestock don’t have those problems.  In fact, grass-fed cattle can be amazingly lean animals.

[[MORE]]What’s surprising to me is that more people don’t make the connection between the obvious effect on livestock, and the same effect on people: grain makes us fat, and weakens our immune systems, too.

Oh, and FWIW, I would avoid livestock that are finished with grain, as well as those who are raised on it.  Just a few weeks on a grain-based diet can completely distort / reverse the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in favor of omega-6 – which encourages inflammation, pain, etc.