We are surrounded by stupid people. \u00a0Stupid is all around. \u00a0And stupid people reproduce. \u00a0Always. \u00a0However, some really aren’t stupid, they are just ignorant. \u00a0I don’t like ellen. \u00a0Never have. \u00a0I don’t find her funny. \u00a0I don’t care for her politics. \u00a0In reality, I don’t pay her much mind. \u00a0But, I have never thought of her as stupid. \u00a0She obviously is not stupid. \u00a0ellen is smart and has built a brand and empire around her. \u00a0She is just ignorant. \u00a0Ignorant of the facts.<\/p>\n
To me, and most of you as well, it is all common sense. \u00a0But to those like ellen that have not been a part of the production of food–plant or animal, it is NOT common sense. \u00a0Here’s what they don’t know (and they really don’t care but\u2026)<\/p>\n
Each and every creature was put on this Earth for a specific purpose. \u00a0The honey bee may very well be the most important. \u00a0I like koalas, penguins and warthogs. \u00a0I’m also real fond of the animals that make steaks, hamburgers, bacon, smoked pork loins and ribs. \u00a0I digress. \u00a0Take a look at our cattle operation. \u00a0These creatures were developed and put here by a higher power. \u00a0They have a perfect design to eat plants that I would not nor cannot eat myself. \u00a0These cows can eat grass THAT is growing on otherwise un-usable land. \u00a0This land is not fit to grow crops that people would consume. \u00a0It wouldn’t make a good golf course or ball field. \u00a0So, these cows can use land that is not otherwise used to in order eat plants that aren’t meant for human consumption and in turn, they make protein. \u00a0Some of the best protein that this world has ever seen. \u00a0And yours, mine, all of our ancestors have eaten beef and other large ruminants. \u00a0Not an opinion, just a fact.<\/p>\n
My accountant can show you that it would be cheaper for me to BUY hay than it has been to grow this stuff. \u00a0Fuel, fertilizer, swathing, baling. \u00a0The production of plants is not cheap. \u00a0I can produce meat protein cheaper with less fuel than I can produce plant protein. \u00a0Not an opinion. \u00a0Just facts.<\/p>\n
And yes, these cows fart while digesting this grass. \u00a0Yes, farts are made of methane. \u00a0Guess what? \u00a0Ellen farts when she digests her impossible burger or bean based protein shake. \u00a0You know what? \u00a0I fart too after bacon, steaks, burgers, fajitas, tacos, ribs. \u00a0We all do. \u00a0The cows, pigs, goats, the little celebrity dogs, all of us mammals give off gas. \u00a0And they always have. \u00a0Bison, elephants, elk, deer, rural people, city people, rich, poor, black, white, no matter what\u2026we all give off gas.<\/p>\n
The cool thing is the fact that by all of us giving off gasses that are high in Carbon Dioxide, we actually are making plants healthier. \u00a0Since, plants actually NEED carbon dioxide in order to complete the dang neart perfect chemical equation called—Photosynthesis. \u00a0Yes, plants need co2 so that they can make glucose and oxygen. \u00a0Plants do this to make the grass that the cows eat, the kale that high rent people eat, the taters that I crave and the beyond meat burgers that are in style. \u00a0And as a result, no matter what you ate, you fart, giving off more co2 which helps the plants. \u00a0Common sense. \u00a0Sure. \u00a0But no to all.<\/p>\n
Eating beef is a first world kind of deal in all actuality. \u00a0Look at the countries that consume the most beef. \u00a0The US of A, Germany, Australia, Japan, Great Britain, France, Brazil, etc. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Common sense. \u00a0First, these countries have large areas of grassland. \u00a0Two, we can afford to eat beef. \u00a0Beef takes longer to produce–average age a of a butcher steer is 18 months. \u00a0And they eat a lot. \u00a0Eating beef has always been a high level type of diet. \u00a0Don’t believe me, read the bible. \u00a0Numerous passages about killing “the fatted calf” for special occasions.<\/p>\n
Now, are we going to get in a discussion about feedlot produced cattle? \u00a0Sure can. \u00a0That corn, silage, etc. \u00a0was not meant for human consumption. \u00a0So, cattle in a feedlot eat this stuff and make even tastier beef. \u00a0Have there been abuses in confined animal feeding operations. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0Sure. \u00a0Just the same as some high end people have owned private islands and entertained other high end humans to abuse other humans. \u00a0Common sense to you or I. \u00a0There are stupid people amongst all walks of life.<\/p>\n
But starving people could eat that stuff instead of those farting cattle. NO! \u00a0Taste the corn that cattle are fed. \u00a0I dare you. \u00a0Starving people would be better off if we could figure out how to use the PREPARED FOOD that is wasted at restaurants, everyday. \u00a0Your guilty. \u00a0I’m guilty. \u00a0We have all chunked excellent food because we were full or didn’t like something. \u00a0Once again, a first world problem.<\/p>\n
Then, there are goats. \u00a0The most consumed meat on the planet is goat meat. This is hard to believe in America. \u00a0But common sense shows us why goat is eaten worldwide. \u00a01–No religious implications. \u00a02–Cheap to keep around. \u00a0I’m not talking about these damn show goats. \u00a0We are discussing real goats. \u00a0They eat things that other animals won’t eat. \u00a0I can put a bale of crab grass or bermuda in with calves. \u00a0Goats that are in the same pasture will not eat it. 3–They reproduce quickly and kids can be butchered in a couple of months. \u00a04–You could have a milk goat–breed her, get a couple of kids, milk her, then eat the kids. \u00a0MOST of the world likes this creature.<\/p>\n
I though goats were cool until I penned them up, fed them high quality feed stuffs and tried to make them into a creature other than what GOD intended. \u00a0It is no wonder doe goats are satanic. \u00a0They were meant to be a free-roaming, browsing animal that did it’s own thing. \u00a0Most goat breeders don’t even understand this fact. \u00a0They aren’t stupid. \u00a0Just ignorant.<\/p>\n
The stupid people\u2026. are all of us\u2026. in agriculture. \u00a0We sit back and watch\/listen\/read about what some celebrity mouthpiece says about agriculture or meat. \u00a0We get pissed. \u00a0We need to be teaching people about agriculture. \u00a0They don’t know. \u00a0They aren’t stupid. \u00a0They are just several generations removed from agriculture and therefore, ignorant of the facts. \u00a0Big business that produces food products understands the difference between stupid and ignorant. \u00a0Advertising. \u00a0Watch tv commercials. \u00a0They are targeting a certain audience. \u00a0And that audience is WAY BIGGER than any of us.<\/p>\n
Non GMO wheat products. There are ZERO GMO wheat products. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because there hasn’t been any GMO wheat used yet. \u00a0False advertising to say that their product is NON GMO? \u00a0No. \u00a0Just not truthful. \u00a0They are playing on the fact that consumers are ignorant. \u00a0Guess what pasta brands are the highest sellers–the ones that advertise non gmo. \u00a0Nongenemodiscuit–a triscuit with no gmo wheat. \u00a0Guess what? \u00a0All wheat based crackers\/biscuits are non gmo. \u00a0EVERY damn triscuit ever sold is a nongenemodiscuit.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Same with chicken. \u00a0Oh, and the whole world eats chickens. \u00a0Chickens and goats. \u00a0No religious implications. \u00a0Easy to keep. \u00a0Multi purpose. \u00a0But, there are companies that advertise antibiotic free or hormone free chickens. \u00a0What? \u00a0Those ads look good. \u00a0But think how many shoppers choose the “free” everything chicken. \u00a0There is a good chance that their snot-nosed kid is on antibiotics and mom as well as daughter are taking birth control pills. \u00a0 However, there has been an industry wide ban of using hormones in poultry for decades. \u00a0So, basically, all US chickens are hormone free. \u00a0Unlike the humans that are on hormones for attitude, emotions, low t, estrogen replacement, sexual frustrations, athletic success, healing, whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And the anti-biotic claim? \u00a0Just like people, chickens get sick. \u00a0 One person at school or work gets sick, most \u00a0everyone there will get sick. \u00a0Animals are no different. \u00a0And when a barn of chickens get sick, they use\u00a0<\/span>antibiotics\u00a0to get them well. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Otherwise, the whole barn will get sick and possibly die. \u00a0Just like people, a dose of meds is needed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So, how does a company advertise “anti-biotic free” chicken when it is impossible for all chickens to be antibiotic free? \u00a0The barns that didn’t get sick and get meds are “free” and sold as such. \u00a0The barn that got sick? \u00a0 Well, that barn of birds gets sold under a different name, at a cheaper price and in a product like say, chicken strips at a fast food joint, restaurant or school where that same snot-nosed kid is going to eat it. \u00a0Not stupid. \u00a0Just ignorant consumers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Judging from the comments about the cover songs post, this was a popular topic. \u00a0The first comment came in via text at 4:45 am on Saturday. \u00a0I had some omissions that I did not know about. \u00a0Sure enough, Skynyrd had a cover song or two, Haggard had some. \u00a0But I also got a drunk text from a goat shower that I know that mentioned that I should never have a list without Motley Crue or Ozzy. \u00a0Well, they didn’t do many cover songs. \u00a0However, the Crue did have a big hit with a cover song that I should have had on the tip of my typing fingers. \u00a0“Smoking in the Boys Room” was originally done by Brownsville Station. \u00a0But the Crue did it better. \u00a0Not stupid. \u00a0 \u00a0Not ignorant. \u00a0I just forgot about that one. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n People, I don’t post on a real regular basis. \u00a0But, when I do, the word count has been like Cheech & Chong—really high!!<\/p>\n Have a good one today and a better one tomorrow. \u00a0I dealt with an exceptionally good group of kids today and guess what? \u00a0I get a different set tomorrow that may be even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are surrounded by stupid people. \u00a0Stupid is all around. \u00a0And stupid people reproduce. \u00a0Always. \u00a0However, some really aren’t stupid, they are just ignorant. \u00a0I don’t like ellen. \u00a0Never have. \u00a0I don’t find her funny. \u00a0I don’t care for her politics. \u00a0In reality, I don’t pay her much mind. \u00a0But, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}