Why I don't eat meat anymore

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My son-in-law and daughter live and work on a hog farm. His employer raises pigs for slaughter. His employer's father, on the same property, keeps breeding sows. The number of hogs they fit into those buildings is insane. The waste is atrocious. They stack the pens so the ones above eliminate on the ones underneath. And, of course, there's the food they are given - gmo corn with antibiotics and hormones added into it.
I have never liked the taste of white pork, but love bacon and ham. I just don't eat it because I've always known of the way it is raised and gets to market.
Cows, pigs, poultry - it's big business. People have to eat.
My mother told me as a teenager the school took them to a slauter house in Louisville Ky., she didn't eat meat for a long long time. It's hard to imagine a face on a Big Mac, but some animal lost it's life for people to enjoy one. That dosent bother me too much, the conditions they raise the animals in does. My rabbits are fed really well, and have roomy cages that are clean, and they get to socialize with the other rabbits. I almost feel guilty as I give them lots of my extra produce from the garden, where I sometimes feel I should be giving it to other people.
 
Did u ever do a benefit-cost analysis? And would you mind sharing? Estimates are good enough for me, I would just like to get an idea. Im really curious and interested in getting into raising a meat bull.
You are probably looking at $210 in feed a month for a cow. We feed sweet feed, corn, pasture and hay. Last time I was at the auction house cattle prices were around $1.30 - $1.50 a lb, but we haven't been in a few years and I have heard prices has gone sky high. The two that you see in my pic were both about $100 a piece (newborn calves are not sold by the lb here) and that was 3 years ago.
 
You are probably looking at $210 in feed a month for a cow. We feed sweet feed, corn, pasture and hay. Last time I was at the auction house cattle prices were around $1.30 - $1.50 a lb, but we haven't been in a few years and I have heard prices has gone sky high. The two that you see in my pic were both about $100 a piece (newborn calves are not sold by the lb here) and that was 3 years ago.

Thanks! Thats not too bad. How long did it take from cattle to 1800# bull?


Heres an interesting link i found. Would you concur with these approximates?

http://www.farmandranchguide.com/ne...cle_94e22c5a-4601-11e1-8214-0019bb2963f4.html
 
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