Alex L., Fast Food Beef, S.I.N, November

It has been supposed that fast-food chains use mass-produced corn-fed cows for years; now proof of this has arrived, as David Biello reported on entitled That Burger You're Eating Is Mostly Corn. The study, preformed by A. Hope Jahren and Rebecca A. Kraft of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and the The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, respectively, evaluated the amount of carbon 13 in the food tested.
This isotope of carbon is slightly heavier, because it has an extra neutron and is present in higher quantities in commercial corn then in most other plants. The findings have shown that 93% of the animal tissue in these foods are corn derived; based on find using a method to evaluate the amount of carbon 13 in the food. This was found in a statistically accurate survey of fast food servers. Only a dozen had hugely lower numbers, all of these were west coast Burger Kings, the researchers presume the levels were different because the meat was imported. The amount of isotopes found in chickens which are fed entirely on corn, varies less in chain-restaurants country wide, then it does in a single “farm-yard” chicken. This corn content may not matter to some but to all who care about their health, the environment’s health, or the world’s health might care greatly. The cows used in the factories that produce this food are fed on almost nothing but corn. This uses a great quantity of corn, which in turn uses a vast quantity of resources to create, and pesticides to. Not only this, but because they eat only corn when they are designed to eat a verity of different foods, this causes the cows to have to be over treated with antibiotics, which leads to more incurable diseases and poisons us.
It has been proven that corn is the primary food source for beef and chicken that is used in the fast-food industry. This leads to an overuse of corn that is detrimental to the environment, the cow’s health, and our health.