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It’s a giant national bank, that sets growing seasons, harvest quotas, and backs up its holdings with millions of tons of corn.
A vegetarian diet, mostly consisting of corn. Is it not? I’ve never really researched the term.
A term commonly applied to generic, muscular Mid-Westerners in the plot summary on the back of a gay porn DVD case.
Corn-fed (factory) cattle, as opposed to grass-fed (farm) cattle, which is more expensive by the lb, unless you buy an entire side of beef directly from the farmer.
Time magazine, FTW.
My assumption was always that it meant what Justin said (minus the gay porn part). Just a generic, midwestern type of person.
Big Bill said:Corn-fed (factory) cattle, as opposed to grass-fed (farm) cattle, which is more expensive by the lb, unless you buy an entire side of beef directly from the farmer.
Time magazine, FTW.
Good to know! I knew grass-fed always meant farm-raised, but I didn’t know corn fed necessarily always meant factory raised. But it makes sense. They’d only eat corn if they weren’t out grazing on grass.
I red an article a while ago that infuriated me. The basic gist was that grass-fed beef doesn’t necessarily taste any better than corn-fed. HELLO. TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT.
Yeah, I have always associated “corn fed” with big, healthy, and kind of stupid.
The reason I bring this up, though, is because I watched a documentary called “King Corn” last night that was pretty interesting. It probably covers stuff that most of you guys know already, but it’s basically about these two dudes who decide to go to Iowa so they can farm an acre of corn and try to track it into the food chain. It turns out that the vast majority of the corn farmed in Iowa is just the grainy stuff that is used to feed cattle or processed further to become HFCS. The biggest revelation for me, though, was that apparently feeding cows corn grain is just terrible for them.
Their stomachs aren’t evolved to process the corn, and while it fattens them up nice and fast, it will actually end up killing them all (if they weren’t destined for the slaughterhouse to begin with). Also, the meat gotten from a corn fed animal is about 5X fattier than a grass-fed animal (a lot of that has to do with confinement as well). This is what prompted me to ask the question, because up until last night I had always associated the term “corn fed” with healthy and strong. Apparently I have been successfully marketed to.
You can also argue that we are all corn-fed, since most of our diet is corn based.
Jay, you should probably read the Omnivore’s Dilemma, it explains the whole corn-fed thing in great detail.
John said:Big Bill said:Corn-fed (factory) cattle, as opposed to grass-fed (farm) cattle, which is more expensive by the lb, unless you buy an entire side of beef directly from the farmer.
Time magazine, FTW.
Good to know! I knew grass-fed always meant farm-raised, but I didn’t know corn fed necessarily always meant factory raised. But it makes sense. They’d only eat corn if they weren’t out grazing on grass.
I red an article a while ago that infuriated me. The basic gist was that grass-fed beef doesn’t necessarily taste any better than corn-fed. HELLO. TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT.
That does sound like a pretty douchey article. Speaking of meat flavors, I had a burger made with Wagyu beef over the weekend at some trendy, wanna-be-fancy restaurant (Harvard Gardens). I asked the waiter about it, because I never heard of Wagyu beef before. He boasted of its origin and how they treat the beef specially at the restaurant with all kinds of neat spices and a chimmichuri sauce. Man, did I get ripped off. $14 for a burger that didn’t taste like anything. Fuck fancy beef. I’ll take char-broiled, run of the mill any day.
Wagyu or kobe in a burger seems so silly and pointless to me. As soon as you grind it, the whole point of having that special beef (the fat marbling) is lost and it becomes indistinguishable from other meats
It was distinguished by lack of flavor. Honestly, I think they just got regular ground beef, boiled away all of the juice, ground it up, mixed it with baking soda and re-grilled it as a new patty.
Thieving fuckers.
We talked about King Corn on here before. When those “High Fructose Corn Syrup isn’t bad for you” commericals started airing. Or at least I mentioned it to Luke somewhere in that post.
Anyway, King Corn is awesome. Everyone should watch it if you haven’t already. And now that I live in Chile, where high fructose corn syrup isn’t the first ingredient in everything, I am really noticing a difference in tastes.
Fed corn. Idiots.
you mean when you defended those hfcs commercials.