How much grain is fed to a chicken, turkey, pig or cow to produce a pound of meat? And I also heard that the grain they are fed is not edible to humans, so it isn't actually a question of the animal eating grain that people could be eating. True?
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Answer by friendofchip
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-12-21/markets/30095442_1_population-growth-red-meat-grain
A chart on feed-to-grain ratios. Very basic.
A study by COrnell- non partisan
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/aug97/livestock.hrs.html
Grain fed to livestock in large scale farming has often been tampered with- hormones, bone meal, and straw, hay , chemicals and so on. For a small farm they feed hay to the cows. Or the pigs get corn if they're lucky. In any case, an awful lot of plant food is fed to any animal for it to live and be used as food. People don't tend to eat meat eaters.
What do you think? Answer below!
Its different everywhere. There's not exact standard amount that's fed to these animals worldwide. Different countries, different states, different slaughterhouses all have their feed own amount and coming to your second question, yes, in most places, 'chickens' are fed agricultural waste which isn't edible for humans but not other animals.
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