Corn--the other white meat

My econ teacher made us read Michael Pollan's 10-page article on the beef industry. It was a great read, and now I think I'll become vegetarian.

Not just for the whole "it's not humanitarian to eat animals!" or whatever. The sad part is that I probably won't be able to give up meat, since I still do sports and I need protein somehow so my muscles don't degenerate into wiggly masses of gelatin.

But anyway, did you know that humans are becoming increasingly made out of corn?!

The majority of the carbon in our bodies comes from our diet. Think about what you eat. Everything other than bona fide vegetables contains corn. Corn syrup in drinks, meat from corn-fed animals, bread with corn flour..the list goes on.

The saddest part is cornfed beef. Cows are not made to eat corn. It acidifies their digestive system, forcing beef farmers to pump their cattle full of antibiotics so the cows live long enough to make it to the meatpacking plant.

But even worse is bacteria now adapted to cow digestive systems have an easier time surviving in ours. Cows are made to eat grass, and their stomachs have an almost neutral pH. Humans, of course, slosh with hydrochloric acid, around a pH of 2. It used to be that bacteria from cows would die in human stomachs--now, it's not the case.

I won't go into detail about the fecal matter present on cows in the slaughterhouse, but...ew.

I refuse to be made out of corn. ~munches an apple~