Hand-deliver these to media, local business and government leaders or educators. USDA devotes eight times the resources to inspecting the nation's meat and poultry as the Food and Drug Administration devotes to the rest of the food supply. It is a nutritionally complete food, containing the proper ratio of all nine essential amino acids. Most of the nutrients consumed by ruminants are from plant feedstuffs not eaten by humans. Cattle production is a natural extension of the grazing by buffalo and other wild animals.
Grazing is a means of renewing and regenerating natural resources.
Water that falls or is put on crop land evaporates, runs off or leaves the plants through transpiration or evaporation. It returns to the earth as rain, recycling many times during a growing season. It is all part of nature's hydrological cycle. You are no longer a member of NCA's Myth Stopper program. At this time, the Myth Stopper program will remain in the Denver NCBA office.