“Cattle are fed prodigious quantities of corn. At a feedlot of a mere 37,000 cows, 25 tons of corn are dumped every hour. It takes 1.2 gallons of oil to make the fertilizer used for each bushel of that corn. Before a cow is slaughtered, she will eat 25 pounds of corn a day; by the time she is slaughtered she will weigh more than 1,200 pounds. In her lifetime she will have consumed, in effect, 284 gallons of oil. Today’s factory-raised cow is not a solar-powered ruminant but another fossil fuel machine.” SEE: http://www.earthsave.org/environment/foodchoices.htm

The added expense of a fish oil might be replaced by adding flax into the cow’s diet, since flax is oily and high in omega 3 oils in particular, but adding expenses as petroleum oil goes up in price will not likely be welcomed, especially in the harder times coming now that GM and Chrysler, and all their suppliers face certain bankruptcy! We will soon be eating artificially beef flavored cellulose burgers, fried sparingly in veggie fats, on high roughage buns (sawdust) with lots of veggies grown in humamure fed hydroponics and aquaponics installations. We never adapted well to “Fish burgers” but may be enticed to eat “Fish ‘n Chips” using fish from humanure fed aquaponics units, if the price is right and we are hungry enough! The great republican depression (GRD) is warping our very lives in ways we may not adapt well to, and some of us really will die by the wayside in this class struggle the Uber-rich are winning hands down, and the “proletariat” (that’s us) are losing with disastrous consequences. We are urban based slaves of “The Man” and he has deserted us for little yellow peasant ladies who toil 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, in the sweat shops of Asia, and return to their own greatest richness, the peasant farm, when burned out and broken by the capitalist machine, and they eat only rice – cheaper indeed! Just look at those huge profit margins, larger dividends! Way to Go America! Screw the World! Screw yourself!

“Cattle are fed prodigious quantities of corn. At a feedlot of a mere 37,000 cows, 25 tons of corn are dumped every hour. It takes 1.2 gallons of oil to make the fertilizer used for each bushel of that corn. Before a cow is slaughtered, she will eat 25 pounds of corn a day; by the time she is slaughtered she will weigh more than 1,200 pounds. In her lifetime she will have consumed, in effect, 284 gallons of oil. Today’s factory-raised cow is not a solar-powered ruminant but another fossil fuel machine.” SEE: http://www.earthsave.org/environment/foodchoices.htm

The added expense of a fish oil might be replaced by adding flax into the cow’s diet, since flax is oily and high in omega 3 oils in particular, but adding expenses as petroleum oil goes up in price will not likely be welcomed, especially in the harder times coming now that GM and Chrysler, and all their suppliers face certain bankruptcy! We will soon be eating artificially beef flavored cellulose burgers, fried sparingly in veggie fats, on high roughage buns (sawdust) with lots of veggies grown in humamure fed hydroponics and aquaponics installations. We never adapted well to “Fish burgers” but may be enticed to eat “Fish ‘n Chips” using fish from humanure fed aquaponics units, if the price is right and we are hungry enough! The great republican depression (GRD) is warping our very lives in ways we may not adapt well to, and some of us really will die by the wayside in this class struggle the Uber-rich are winning hands down, and the “proletariat” (that’s us) are losing with disastrous consequences. We are urban based slaves of “The Man” and he has deserted us for little yellow peasant ladies who toil 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, in the sweat shops of Asia, and return to their own greatest richness, the peasant farm, when burned out and broken by the capitalist machine, and they eat only rice – cheaper indeed! Just look at those huge profit margins, larger dividends! Way to Go America! Screw the World! Screw yourself!

But, maybe scientists can use this as a basis to develop an alternative.

But, maybe scientists can use this as a basis to develop an alternative.