Randy, I wasn't going to waste my time with this, but now that they have me started---
I have been raising beef for over forty years, now.When I started, they were grass fed because I didn't have corn. Didn't even have a corn planter, come to think of it.
As time went, the herd grew, and I needed something to feed them. Naturally, if I didn't, the neighbors tulips seemed to suffer devastating losses. So, I started raising hay, and later corn. Fertilizer made the hay grow much better, and corn was cheaper to feed them with, as silage, through the winter. Corn is a grass- so aren't my cows grass fed????
Of course, with the advent of GMO crops, and in the interest of keeping weeds down, and the bugs at bay, to increase production on the limited acres I have, I now plant GMO corn. But, it's still a grass- I can just produce one heil of a lot more of it for the same money as I can produce hay. But, if I put the manure on my hay, would it still be organic? Oh, man. Now I'm using MTM, a manure stabilizer, on my manure. Guess even my chit isn't organic now.
And, then, to keep the herd healthy, I vaccinated them against everything I could dream up and whatever the vet threw in. Dang- still further from organic.
They still look and taste the same as the neighbors organic stuff- maybe even taste better because they have some fat on them.
You can sell some idiots anything- notice that they drive mini Coopers and Beemers and VW bugs. They will buy spotted apples and half eaten by bug ears of corn and organic chickens that have been feeding on whatever superbug my GMO corn didn't kill. Just tell them it's 'organic'.
We're all organic- just in what growth stage changes. People who are edumacated will market stuff with any buzz word and buy the same to prove they are greener than the neighbor.
I, if 'organic', couldn't raise much grassfed beef on this place, and give me less money to pay for it. And I can't afford to pay several hundred bucks an acre to produce 2 ton grass hay and weedy 5 ton corn.
Sorry for the rant, but my organic azz just ain't very organiced. I, and others of our profession, are charged with feeding some 350,000,000+ people in this country, and who knows how many in other countries. I just don't feel we can feed half that number if we were organic......
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