{"id":1090,"date":"2006-02-21T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2006-02-21T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T12:45:00","slug":"beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all comes back together.  It&#8217;s a bit of a read, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindfully.org\/Food\/Power-Steer-Pollan31mar02.htm\">Power Steer<\/a> by Michael Pollan is a good piece of journalism on where beef comes from.  He moralizes only a little bit.  He purchased a steer in order to follow it through the industrial farming process.  Most of the time the facts speak for themselves.  Among those facts is a calculation that I found familiar:<\/p>\n<p><em>It might be possible to calculate precisely how much oil it will take to grow my steer to slaughter weight. Assuming No. 534 continues to eat 25 pounds of corn a day and reaches a weight of 1,250 pounds, he will have consumed in his lifetime roughly 284 gallons of oil. We have succeeded in industrializing the beef calf, transforming what was once a solar-powered ruminant into the very last thing we need: another fossil-fuel machine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I dug it.  Maybe you will too, though if you&#8217;re planning to eat at the Outback, you might put off the article until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221;They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today,&#8221; Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, with a note of envy, of grazing cattle, &#8221;fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy or bored.&#8221; Nietzsche clearly had never seen a feedlot.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all comes back together. It&#8217;s a bit of a read, but Power Steer by Michael Pollan is a good piece of journalism on where beef comes from. He moralizes only a little bit. He purchased a steer in order to follow it through the industrial farming process. Most of the time the facts speak <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1090\">Beef<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}