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City Grazing for Sheep or Cattle

Submitted by Lynn Green on 30 March 2009 - 4:14pm | updated 03 Apr 2009 | Blog entry
Grazing Paddock

 Do you have sheep or cattle which you would like to graze on paddocks alongside Kelmarna Organic City Farm in Herne Bay? » Read more

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Industrial agriculture in action

Submitted by Rimu on 22 July 2008 - 9:14pm | updated 04 Sep 2008 | Blog entry

In the USA, it's cheaper to grow corn and feed it to cattle than to use that land to just directly graze cattle on. But where are you going to put the cattle while being fed?? Why, jam them into a pen! They call em 'feedlots'

In the feedlot the cattle eat corn mixed with hormones, antibiotics, etc etc so that they get larger quicker. This improves the company's bottom line.

It's not a pretty scene. Here is one from above (click to go to google maps and zoom in, etc) » Read more

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