Nadenu wrote:
So why are cows fed corn anyway?
Some might say it's because the government subsidizes corn production. This presumably makes the price of corn less than it's actual production costs.
Also corn is a good filler. Puts lots of weight on cows fast.
A trick out here on the coast is fattening your clams and mussels by feeding them corn meal for a day before steaming. It supposedly causes them to **** out some of the gritty sea-ish mud from the tummy as well. Still, others will claim that without that mud in the clam tummy, the bi-valve isn't nearly as tasty.