Cattle feedlots in the U.S. ... literally almost all beef consumed in the U.S. is sourced from these factory feedlots ... most people in the U.S. born 20 years and later have never eaten beef that has been grass fed ... these feedlot cattle are entirely fed with genitically modified corn ... this enables them to get a bovine to market in less than a year as opposed to 2 years with a grass grazed bovines ... the feedlot bovines are so stuffed and fattened with this corn feed making them very susceptable to infection/disease that they they are highly pumped up with antibiotics ... in fact most of the anibiotics produced in the U.S. goes to these feedlot cattle.

So ... IMHO I consider this not only a tragedy of absolute cruelty to animals but cruelty to humans in thinking that the hamburgers, steaks and beef jerky they consume is healthy and safe to eat.

forget about those seals, I'd be more concerned about the plight of the American cow and the plight of your fellow human beings.

dianavan ... good point about losing good farmland to urbanization. Mississauga the huge subarban spread outside of Toronto entirely devoured some of the finest farmland to be found in Canada.

biLL