Quote Originally Posted by westtexas View Post
The reason confinement operation (CFO) beef is bad for you is because those animals eat a crap ton of corn, which they aren't designed to digest.
This is true of course, but I'm also disgusted at the idea of eating meat from animals that live in rivers of their own refuse. That just cannot be healthy no matter what they are fed. Have you seen some of the feed-lot conditions? Ick! And animals raised on pasture generally have less of a need for antibiotics because they get sick less both because they aren't fed corn and because they aren't kept in such ridiculously close and unnatural confinement (same for chickens, actually).

I'll take happy animals raised on grass/pasture and fed a varied diet (in the case of pigs) any day!