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Show ARM, RANCH & GARDEN ... but Its a sad fact there are today hundreds of millions of people in the world whose food intake is at the starvation level. These people must be fed. However, faulty in- formation, misleading Edition-Ap- ril, 1977 overlook the fact that 75 percent of all feed consumed by cattle is inedible by humans. Cattle are ruminants (animals with four stomachs). That means they can produce high quality protein for human consumption from statistics and simplistic otherwise unusable slogans have convinced resources such as grass, some people that eating and straw, husks and other and producing less beef in this fibrous pulpy country will somehow mean materials. In fact, the more food for the rest of the ruminant is a walking world. At the center of this controversy is grain principally corn which is used to feed cattle. Critics of beef production protein factory. The majority of a steers life is spent on land that cannot grow food for humans nearly 900 million acres in the United States alone. Were it not for entire like cattle, millions of acres of land three pounds of grain for each pound of live weight. ruminants might not be useful for producing any sort of food. That is a luxury we cannot afford. In a sense, because this land cannot be used for anything else, it represents a found resource. One that is totally renewable with little or no energy consumption. Cattle are not fed grain until they have achieved s more than of their final market weight. And despite what you may three-fourth- have heard, over their lifespan, cattle consume no more than Not 8 . . . Not 15. ..Not 21.. THREE. Also, not all cattle are fed grain. In 1974 more than 35 percent of slaughtered cattle were and this pergrass-fecentage will probably increase in years to come. . d production thereby increasing the quantity of beef available. And consumer demand has been for beef because it is grain-feand flavorful more palatable than d n non-grai- fed beef. an also is Economics important factor here. For many years there was a in surplus of this country enabling cattle to be grain-feprofitably. But as grain prices have feed-grai- Beef can be produced without the use of any grain and without lessening the nutritional value of the product. Then, why use grain at all? Grain feeding speeds up d increased dramatically over the past year or so, the cattle feeder finds it difficulty to break even let alone make a profit. Therefore, like the automotive industry, the cattle industry is being forced by current economic conditions to reappraise its production methods. Cattle are being kept on grass longer, coming to feedlots at heavier weights and staying for shorter periods. As this trend continues, total grain usage by the cattle industry could be or reduced by more. It must be remembered that the grain fed to cattle is not just consumed. Actually, cattle improve the protein content by top. Wheat is 2 percent protein, about 52 percent of which is usable. 10-1- in amount and quality, beef protein cannot be matched by any single vegetable, fruit or grain. Pound-for-poun- 8 8 6 3 The United Nations Food . . Agriculture Organization recognizes this and is on record as saying that cattle, a source of high-qualit- needed peoples interest return for proper length of time that can make the difference between a good year and a bad one. Call us. of your money-hi- gh 2 for adequate well as maximum land usage. This is true for both in dustrialized and developing nutrition as nations. Ground Beef Stew & Boiling PAK . . . . dump Round Rolled Engtith Cut fc Round Steak The way you treat your money after the sale is as important as how you treat your crop before. First Security can guide you on the best use protein, are by the worlds Steak Roast 16 IDS. K03ST 14 assured-quantit- y y, can carry a burden 300 times its own weight. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 50-l- b. d, and one-thir- d A honeybee $175 lbs. Ground Beef Stew Beef lbs. Boiling Beef ORDER . EARLY! Custom Cutting and Processing STATE INSPECTED OF UTAH, N.A. MEMBER FDIC con- verting lower quality grain protein to high quality animal protein. About eight percent of corn is protein, but it is incomplete and only 56 percent of the protein content is usable by the human body. However, 17 percent of the retail weight of beef is protein, of which 80 percent is usable. Even if wheat were grown in place of the feedcorn, protein comparisons put beef on THAYN RANCH BRAND BEEF 4 637-204- 5 EAST OF WELLINGTON |