Earls Restaurant Beef Backlash

[Happytrails]

SF3, you hit the nail on the head! And being as the beef is imported it is unlikely that their claims will be scrutinized.

[newguy]

Nothing better than 200 day barley fed steer.Under 16 months old hung for 3 weeks and of course bbq properly.American corn fed stuff or grass fed can never compare.

[ado089]

You guys spouting off about antibiotics realize that rumensin is what most of the idiots are talking about when they say "cattle are fed antibiotics ". Rumensin is an ionofore that alters the rumen bacteria to select for more efficient ones and prevent bloat. Combine that with hormones, which are long past the withdrawal period at slaughter and your feed efficiency goes from 7:1 to almost 5:1. So what do you want to do? Minimize environmental impact or hide from an imaginary boogy man? I don't care what earls dies because I didn't like that place before but the beef industry needs to get off their ass and appease these idiots while at the same time making it clear they are getting in the way of best practices.

[greybeard]

Feeding cattle without Rumensin can bring on an absolute shit storm due to coccidiosis.
Hamloc summed it very well.
I'd love to supply a niche market, but give me some incentive.
If I have to do a bunch of extra work I might as well go direct to consumer.
Until the packers plug that hole.
Farmers aren't suppose to sell direct to the consumer.
Screws everything up.

[farmaholic]

So what's next? Rhizobia bacteria? Maybe they prefer synthetic fertilizer?

[sumdumguy]

How did our forefather's raise cattle without antibiotics and growth hormones?

[furrowtickler]

Go shoot a deer or moose

[riders2010]

Way back in the day we used to feed out our calves and never used ruminsin. Never had problems but then again out feeders weren't standing up to their bellies in cow shit either.

[tweety]

How did our forefather's raise cattle without antibiotics and growth hormones?

The cattle usually had the same fate as the forefathers without antibiotics, they usually died.

[fjlip]

Way back in the day we used to feed out our calves and never used ruminsin. Never had problems but then again out feeders weren't standing up to their bellies in cow shit either.

That is so true about 1000's of animals in a pile...lots of space and there should be less problems.
Rather see them in grass.