SDSU provides valuable information to the world
South Dakota State University was just featured on national television.
I’m sitting here watching the TV show MANswers (it was on after Deadliest Warrior), and here they are quoting my alma mater, South Dakota State University. If you’re not familiar with the show, they probe such gripping questions like “can you freeze your farts and smell them later?”
What important question did SDSU help respond to for those fortunate enough to be born male?
“How much beef jerky can you make out of a 1200 pound cow?” (114 pounds)
I can go to bed, a better and more informed man.
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I would like to see animals raised better than feedlots in the USA. That is all I’m saying.
Something has to change.
Toad,
What are we supposed to think about it? That there should be less animals killed? When you consider that the world has 6 billion people, we need more animals feeding the world’s population.
Or are you saying that you want a greater percentage of income devoted to meat and food because that is what the elimination of feedlots does to the price of meat.
Neither of which sounds very compassionate or caring about the world’s hungry and poor.
I agree with Mr. Nemec, which might be a first.
And to #1, your point is…? I think we should kill more animals. I think there are people out there who are hungry. Really hungry. They might eat 1000 lbs of that steer.
You know there is something to be said for the way we treat animals for food. They deserve a good life even if they are to provide food for us.
I think of cattle and wonder why they must stand in their own waste and live without shade or protection from the weather.
I wonder what would happen to the person who raised dogs in a cage without shelter from the sun or weather and allowed that dog to stand in it’s own waste. Maybe if the dogs got hot that person would spray them with a hose and if they died… they’d say I need money from the government because I’m going to loose my income. Which intern means people are paid to continue bad practices and not adapt.
Like the gov in the auto industry now. Some people just aren’t cut out for certain work and getting paid regardless of good practices or bad keeps the bad ones in place and that means they don’t learn.
Just my thoughts.
Hey Nick just for fun I took 1200 lbs. times 60% (720lbs.) which would be the carcass weight in meat of our Angus steer. Not even taking into consideration the cuts of meat unable to be used for making jerky when we dry out the 75% water we are left with only a total of 180 lbs. of dry meat. SDSU is smarter than we think.
Toad what was the number of fish killed? It would of been higher than any other animal group one would assume.
Nick you also know I am an Angus kind of guy and we can incorporate any beef breed except dairy and come up with the same numbers.
IE–Never want to lose any Hereford buddies votes from Hoven or Charolais friends from Bowdle ya know.
Any cut of beef can be used to make jerky. Lips could probably be used to make jerky for heaven’s sake!
The worldwide number of animals killed for food in 2000 was 45 billion, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. This included 306 million cattle, buffalo, and calves, 1.2 billion pigs, 795 million sheep and goats, and 42.7 billion chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese. The figures exclude some small countries and ‘non-slaughter’ deaths, which are generally not reported.
These numbers are astronomical! I’m just saying we should think about it…