Prospectus

Today, cows, sheep and other grazing animals diets have only consisted of corn instead of grass. This causes many problems in the animal and bad consequences for both the grazer and us. The reasons factory farms have started doing this was because it’s much cheaper, faster and profitable. In the United States, cows would be slaughtered after four or five years. Today, they are slaughtered after fourteen or sixteen months. This is done with large amounts of corn, protein supplements, antibiotics and growth hormones. Feeding a cow corn instead of grass is extremely disturbing to their digestive systems and it can possibly kill the animal if it is not done as gradually as possible and with massive amounts of antibiotics. Feeding cows grass is much more positive because it produces high quality meat with less bacteria and infections that make us sick.

The health effects of feeding corn to cows take a number of tolls on our bodies. The beef that we eat has caused waste runoff into rivers and ocean and pollutes the water and the environment. Infectious E. coli is found in many beef products because of the poor diets of cows. The poor diets of corn and grain cause their stomachs to be very acidic, just like our stomachs. The acid in our stomach helps to kill off bacteria from food that we’ve eaten, but the bacteria is now immune because of the high acidic levels in the cows. Nothing is being done about this problem because food companies try to make the most profit possible and in the cheapest way. They do not care about the welfare of the consumers eating the food they produce because it’s all about money.

            The sources I will be using is a blog written by a student that uses a lot of important and useful on the effects of corn fed diets in cows and the effects of it on humans. I will be using the book “The Ethics Of What We Eat,” by Peter Singer because he talks about all the practices factory farms follow. I will also be using the LaGuardia database to find books related to my research.