...GRASS FED OR GRAIN FED BEEF: WHICH IS BETTER FOR YOU? Manning, R (2009, April/May). The amazing benefits of grass fed meat. MOTHER EARTH NEWS 48-56. Retrieved from http://motherearthnews.com The author looks at all the benefits of grass fed beef versus grain fed. The article states all the benefits of grass fed over grain fed cattle. It clearly states his position of not only it having more vitamins and minerals, but also it is environmentally better overall for the earth. With the cattle being able to roam freely in an open area there is less chance for the animals to develop e-coli, and also prevents the usage of antibiotics for animals to prevent diseases. Robbins, J., & robbins,o (2012, December 19). The truth about grass fed beef. THE FOOD REVOLUTION NETWORK. Retrieved from http://foodrevolution.com These authors go into great detail on the differences of grass fed versus grain fed beef. There thoughts carry you through the beginning stages of both grass and grain fed cows, and the environmental and health issues of both. There main focus is on not only the health benefits of grass fed over grain fed, but also putting emphasis on health of cows and the poor conditions these cattle have to endure during the duration of life. Cacal,j (2013, October 4). The benefits of grain and grass fed beef. Buedel Meat up. Retrieved from http://buedelmeatup.com This article specifically talks about the different feeding methods of both grain and grass fed cattle. ...
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...Corn Fed vs. Grass Fed Have you noticed how there’s an increasingly wider selection of types of beef to be purchased? Which option is healthier? Which one is least expensive? There has been an ongoing dispute over which choice of beef we should be consuming. While both may seem to have their own advantage and disadvantage; ranging from being cost-efficient, to more beneficial nutrients. Both contribute to the eco-system, but in completely different ways. While grass-fed beef is the healthier alternative, it can prove to be a bit pricey, nonetheless, grass-fed beef provide us with more nutrients; they’re higher in Omega-3 fatty acid and vitamin E. Corn-fed beef, on the other hand, is relatively more affordable. The million dollar question should be, it’s affordable, but at what cost? What makes corn-fed beef so much cheaper than grass-fed? Corn-fed cattle go through a process, almost like an assembly line. The first step, the cow and calf live in a cow-calf operation. Here, the cow is artificially inseminated for the sole purpose of reproduction. For the first 6 months, the calf stays with their mother, once they’re old enough they’re taken to a pen, where they’re introduced to corn. To make a long story short, the calf is finally moved into a CAFO (confined animal feeding operation). From this point on, they’re all confined to small caged in areas. These facilities house hundreds, even thousands of farm animals. From this point on their diet is strictly corn, protein, vitamins...
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...Grass- Fed vs. Grain Beef Daniel Ray Meek Hotel, Restaurant, and institutional meat 10/10/13 Chef Bradley Randoplh-Adams Today, the cow was fed can have a major effect on the nutrient in the beef. The cattle was often fed in grains, the animal we ate have been evolution by roamed free and ate grass. Many studies that had shown the nutrients in beef can be varying depending on how cow eat. It not only important how we eat, it is important the food we eat. What the different between grass-fed and grain-fed cow? All cow starting live similar life. Once calves were born, they start drink milk from their mother. Calves starting to roam and eat grass, shrub or whatever edible plants they find in their environment. This continues for about six to eighth month, and then the farmer will conventionally raise cows to feedlots. Large feedlot are called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ( CAFOs). That where the crowing cow is and their dung on their feet. The farmer has feeding grain-based to the cow to rapidly fatty up. The grain-based was base of soy or corn. The conventionally of cow grow faster by given drugs and hormones to grow faster, and antibiotic to survive the unsanitary living condition. The cow will be staying there for few month then move into factory for slaughtering. Grain-fed beef does not contain appreciable levels of carotenoids, for the simple reason that grains don’t contain them. Compare that to grass-feeding cow, which the cow may continue to live...
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...The Multiple Benefits of Grass-fed Meat Animals that tend to naturally graze in the fields play an important role in maintaining our health. Also these animals can protect the environment. However, farmers who feed animals grain in feedlots can cause several health risks. This article that is attached explains the difference and the benefits in grass-fed animals versus industrial-fed animals. Most meat we tend to eat today seems to be chemically induced. This causes a high rise in obesity, diabetes, heart disease, poor immune systems, not to mention dementia, and in some cases cancer. Why? The reason is because farmers are finding a faster and easier way of feeding their animals instead of the natural way. An industrial farm is basically a linear farm that uses nothing but fertilizer, seeds, and water. This produces your grain for cows and other animals. Nothing is wrong with that, right? One would think that but the nutrient cycling solely depends on the nozzle that sprays anhydrous ammonia fertilizer (Manning, R. 2015). This is not healthy at all. In order to establish a healthier ecosystem we need more natural grazing animals. Without them, the grass grows old and rank not to mention the lack of nutrients the animals are getting. A great type of ecosystem is the Circle of Life system. This captures life and death, storing and reinvesting energy. Large animals can’t really survive without this process. The benefits of grass-fed meat are numerous. They contain high concentrations...
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...maintain themselves, saving you a lot of effort. It has saved people dozens hours of labor, hundreds of dollars in lawn care expenses and tax payments every year, while also protecting our shared environment. Grasscycling is the easy way to a healthy lawn and a great way to recycle valuable nutrients for free. It combines a mowing plan that calls for cutting turf areas with greater frequency without removing the clippings, and low-input watering and feeding. LAWN CARE HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY 2 1. What is grasscycling • Grasscycling is a proven, simple and natural approach to lawn care. • Grasscycling (grass-recycling) is the natural recycling of grass by leaving clippings on the lawn when mowing; the grass clippings are left on the lawn to decompose quickly, they contain 80-85% water and releasing valuable nutrients that returned back into the soil. • Grass clippings add beneficial organic matter to the soil, which provides free fertilizer and produces healthy, green lawns. • Grasscycling saves time, money, and protects the environment...
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...population in the food chain shown, what will be the initial effect on the populations of hawks and rabbits? * A. The populations of hawks and rabbits will decrease. * B. The populations of hawks and rabbits will increase. * C. The population of hawks will increase. The population of rabbits will decrease. * D. The population of hawks will decrease. The population of rabbits will increase. 2. In the stable food chain shown below, what would you expect to happen initially if you were to suddenly double the population of rabbits? * A. The populations of the other three species would also increase. * B. The populations of the other three species would decrease. * C. The grass...
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...FOR CRITICAL THINKING Course Code : Total Quality Management Case Title : The Parable of the Green Lawn Case number : Case 1 A new housing development has lots of packed earth and weeds, but no grass. Two neighbors make a wager on who will be the first to have a lush lawn. Mr. Fast N. Furious knows that a lawn will not grow without grass seed, so he immediately buys the most expensive seed he can find because everyone knows that quality improves with price. Besides, he will recover the cost of the seed through his wager. Next, he stands knee deep in his weeds and tosses to seed around his yard. Confident that he has a headstart on his neighbor, who is not making much visible progress, he begins his next project. Ms. Slo N. Steady, having grown up in the country, proceeds to clear the lot, till the soil, and even alter the slope of the terrain to provide better drainage. She checks the soil’s pH, applies weed killer and fertilizer, and then distributes the grass seed evenly with a spreader. She applies a mulch cover and waters the lawn appropriately. She finishes several days after her neighbor, who asks if she would like to concede defeat. After all, he does have some blades of grass poking up already. Mr. Furious is encouraged by the few clumps of grass that sprout. While these small, green islands are better developed than Ms. Steady’s fledgling lawn, they are surrounded by bare spots and weeds. If he maintains these footholds, he reasons, they should spread...
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...by providing food, clothing and shelter. Marmots, mice, rabbits and gazelles also inhabit grasslands, which could destroy a farmers land and even cause ruckus if not checked on a regular basis. So to control them the wolves are important as they keep a check on their population by eating them. They might attack the horses, but according to the author they devour the weak horses so that the others become brave and agile. Summary When Chen and Yang decided to live on the inner Mongolian grasslands during the Cultural Revolution in 1966-76, they tried and adapted the ways of the anti-Han culture. They learnt about the balance of the nature, in which wolves were to be worshipped and they were considered to have maintained the number of grass guzzlers such as marmots, mice and rabbits. Even if they attacked the horses, it was said that they eliminated the weak ones, thereby leaving the stronger breed. These horses which survived are said to have carried the cavalry of Genghis Khan. A person who grew up in the agony of killing marmots, tells Han that they don’t care about what is going to happen next in their life, they just move on in the grassland; their ultimate reason being using the marmots for extermination of the wolves. Now after 20 years of leaving the grasslands, Chen decides to write everything in WOLF TOTEM. He is a beautiful writer that not only his writings were famous, but also he explains very clearly about spirituality and...
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...likely to judge the quality of her lawn careservices? ~ Hazels customers will most likely judge the quality of her lawn care services by thequantity of Hazels other customer, how efficient she does her work and her credibility. 2 . Hazel is the operations manager of her business . Among her responsibilities areforecasting inventory management, scheduling, quality assurance, and maintenance . a. What kinds of things would likely require forecasts? ~ Weather and climate condition would likely require forecasts as well as thedemand for lawn mowing services.b. What inventory items does Hazel probably have? Name one inventory decision shehas to make periodically. ~ The inventory items that Hazel probably has are rake, grass cutter, fertilizers,mower, seeds, and other lawn mower equipments.c. What scheduling must she do? What things might occur to disrupt schedules andcause Hazel to reschedule? ~ It depends upon the demand of the customers. Basically, Hazel will accept one totwo customers five times a week. She will do her lawn services approximately once amonth. The things that might occur to disrupt schedules and will cause Hazel toreschedule are fortuitous events such as storms, floods, earthquake and othercalamities.d. How important is quality assurance to Hazels business? Explain. ~ The quality assurance to Hazels business is indeed very important. It willdetermine the number of Hazels customers. It will also reflect on her businesscredibility...
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...a type of saltwater bay grass. Generally, it is found near water, but it is located on the east and west coast of the United States. The growth of this bay grass depends on the amount of salt, or salinity. Chemicals, such as pesticides can get onto the water, in which clouds it. This is a result of bay grass not getting enough sunlight. Not only that, but the extra nutrients causes algey to grow, blocking the sunlight even more. Bay grasses are not only for decorations in the water, but it is for our environment and the animals that live in the water. For instance, they are good for nurseries for various types of fish, like men haden, herring, shud, crokers, white perch, and weak fish. It also serves food for Barnacles, sponges, sea slugs, sea squirts, and more. For our environment, it improves water clarity by helping sediment settle to the bottom. Not only that, but it adds oxygen into the water, reduces shoreline erosion, buries bottom dwelling species, and absorbs exass nutrients. Sadly though, the abundance of these helpful bay grasses has been decreasing. In 2006, grasses in the upper bay fell 20%, for a total of 15,510 acres. In the middle bay, grasses dropped 23%, dropping to 30,659 acres. Finally, lower bay grasses dropped 25%, dropping from 78,263 acres, to 59,090 acre. By 2007, people had noticed a lot what was going on than before and started planning. The government decided to do a plan in which to increase the number of bay grass. By 2008, people were really...
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...SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS “O.M. SCOTT & SONS COMPANY” SUBMITTED BY: ESTIMADA, ANNA GABRIELLA C. Executive Summary The O.M. Scott and Sons company was a company which first started to produce weed-free grass, but diversified into other products related to its product line: lawn mowers, fertilizers, and other garden paraphernalia. It encountered the problem of nationwide distribution, finding difficulty in the delivery of its product. The company solve this problem of nationwide distribution by first, increasing its work force to keep up with the voluminous orders. Second, by setting up dealerships which will distribute their products and lastly, establishing a trust receipt payment system in order to assure the quick returns of investments. Problem The company encountered difficulty in the distribution of its products for two reasons: the nature of its agriculturally based products necessitated the quick distribution of products upon order. The voluminous orders and distances of nationwide coverage rendered the distribution difficult. Corporate Objective In keeping up with the modernization of agricultural products and technology, the company expanded its product line by diversifying into related products and services. From grass, O.M. Scott & Sons started the production of fertilizers, lawn mowers and other products. This diversification assured the company against stagnation. Areas of Consideration Shareholders & Key Officers * Sales...
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...basically digging for information about the problem going on and you try to find results by using the internet, books or any source to get your answers. There will be results maybe through testing or charts will appear from studies to support the answers. A non-scientific inquiry is one that does not use a systematic collection of evidence or one that tries to find answers to questions about things other than the natural world/universe, such as beliefs. An example of everyday assumption is gender or stereotyping of what you see that what you assume this more like expectations. If women are mowing the lawn there is going to be a man that will approach you and tell you how to do things properly or what to wear in order to for you to cut the grass right. The answers will come to you without seeking them, just because she is a women it doesn’t mean that she don’t know what’s she doing it is just an assumption because of her gender. The cutting of a lawn is supposed to be a man’s job so they feel they need to say something about it. But all of this is not...
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...I find that The Lawn Care Company’s strategic mission is to provide the highest quality grass seed and fertilizer to their customers. They want to remain to have a competitive advantage and keep their brand known around the world. They strive to remain market leaders and target premium class customers like golf clubs and parks. As a company they have put continued emphasis on delivering “the right product to the right customer at the right time.” As Collier and Evans (2012, p.75) explains that competitive priorities signifies the strategic emphasis that a company sets on certain performance measures and operational capabilities within value chain of the company. Currently the competitor learned the application business and was looking to explore residential work. They were marketing their service as “a beautiful lawn with a promise of no hassles.” This after sales service would most likely promote customer loyalty and word of mouth advertisement, which reduces marketing costs. I see the order qualifier as lawn care the provides quality grass seed and good products, but the order winner it would be the competitor providing application and ensuring the lawn condition would remaining in good standing through the growing season. If The Lawn Care Company expanded into not only being a supplier but also an applicator of their product, the primary focus would move from highest quality products to efficient application service. In order to achieve this, they can adopt the pre and postproduction...
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...Beautiful Day There is this place just a few blocks away from my house where I like to go to get away. It’s called The Rock in Pawnee Rock. Early in the morning it can be so peaceful and quiet with beautiful wet dew still on the grass. As the sun comes up you see the colors surrounding the bright sky. Nothing more radiant as the sun on a bright morning. As I look around I can see every house in this small town, plus the long stretch of highway from great bend to larned. You see cars buzzing by on the highway and hear the hum of a nearby lawn being mowed with the smell of fresh cut grass in the air. The tall stone pillars remind me of the brave Indians that lost their lives in battle on these grounds. The jagged rocks around make me think of when I was a child and loved to climb onto the tallest rocks I could find, as I would stand at the top of the hill and felt like king of the world. Too Busy To Stand Still At the rock early in the morning the world seems so eerie and dark. The sun still shining but the lives of Indians passed still feel as if they are lingering in this hollow place. As I stand at the top of the hill you see the once lovely plaques dedicated to the Indians that lost their lives on these grounds, which is now riddled full of bullet holes. The walls and the tall pillars now covered in obscene spray paint, surely contaminated by the younger generation with nothing better to do. As you hear the loud cars busily driving by, you wonder if anyone ever...
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...person is looking to buy a future home they want to see a nice neighborhood that looks respectable and not as if it’s a bad neighborhood. The appearance of a home in my belief can say a lot about the people who live there. Someone who takes care of their home for example pressure washing, not trash in yard, paint nicely applied. Also there are some resident that don’t have the money but the residents should do as much as they can. To give an example of this a resident in my neighborhood has fixed the garage door which is tilted half way closed and it’s not very appealing. The appearance of a residents lawn as well as home its self make a community. A yard or lawn care should at the minimum have the grass mowed. The plants should be not over grown or deceased. Living in Florida the grass isn’t always...
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