Reply #4: Acutally, cows fare relatively well [View All]

[Warpy]

and most are range fed on public land for a fee until a few weeks before slaughter. That's when they're transferred to feed lots, which are pens crowded with cattle and surrounded by bins of corn and other high fat foodstuffs that will make the cattle unhealthily fat but their meat tender enough to eat as a quckly seared and nearly raw in the middle steak.

Anybody who's ever driven by a feed lot in August will never forget the experience.

Chickens and pigs fare the worst from factory farming.

(contaminated feed fed to cows generally came from slaughtered downer sheep who had been suffering from an equivalent disease in sheep called scrapie)