Does Quality Matter To You?

Does Quality Matter To You?

I Bet You Didn’t Know: What Farm Animals Really Eat and Why It Matters to You

Did you know that the diets of farm-raised animals—including fish—are carefully designed to make them grow as fast as possible?

It’s true! Farmers use specific feeds to fatten up livestock quickly, reducing the time it takes to get animals to slaughter weight.

But what goes into these feeds, and what are the consequences—for both the animals and for you?

 

The Fast-Food Diet for Farm Animals

For cows, pigs, chickens, and even fish, it’s all about high, carbohydrate-rich diets based on grains like corn, wheat and soy.

Why?

  1. The foods cause a huge insulin surge, which will cause fat gain
  2. These grains are cheaper and bulk animals up faster than their natural diets.

For example, cattle on a corn-heavy feedlot diet can gain up to 4 pounds a day.

This will help them reach market weight in about 12-18 months instead of 2-3 years on a grass-fed diet.

Twice as fat in half the time...

Chickens raised for meat (broilers) can reach a slaughter weight of 6 pounds in just 6 weeks—doubling their size every week! 


But Wait...Even Fish?

Yup!

Fish in aquaculture are no exception.

Carnivorous species like salmon are fed a diet rich in fish meal, soy, and fats, allowing them to grow to market size in about 18 months, half the time it would take in the wild.

In some cases, animals grow 20-30% larger and faster than they would naturally, making farming more profitable. But it comes at a cost.

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The Downside: Diseases and Drugs

Fattening up animals quickly isn’t without consequences.

This unnatural diet often leads to health problems like liver disease, metabolic disorders, and weakened immune systems.

In chickens, for instance, rapid growth causes bone problems and heart failure.

Fish in overcrowded tanks can suffer from infections and deformities.

Big Drug Companies Also Supplies Livestock
 
To keep these animals alive long enough to bring them to full slaughter weight, farmers often rely on antibiotics, hormones, and other drugs.
 
Antibiotics help prevent the diseases that result from crowded, unsanitary conditions and weakened immune systems, while growth hormones and steroids are sometimes used to further accelerate weight gain.
 
It’s a vicious cycle—without these drugs, many of these animals wouldn’t survive long enough to reach your plate.

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The American Diet: More Similar Than You Think

Here’s where it gets scary: the standard American diet mirrors the fattening diets fed to farm animals.

Ultra-processed foods, refined grains, added sugars, and unhealthy fats dominate the typical Western diet, just like the high-carb feeds given to livestock.

It’s no wonder we’re facing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease.

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Be More Concerned With How You Eat
 
Many Americans worry about what’s being fed to livestock and the drugs used to fatten them up, but rarely stop to think about how their own diets are doing the same thing to their bodies. 
 
The truth is, the same high-carb, processed foods that bulk up animals are leading to obesity, diabetes, and other health issues in us.
  • Over 73% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese
  • 1 in 3 American Adults has pre diabetes or diabetes.
  • 66% of adults taking at least one medication regularly.
It's time we care as much about what we’re putting in our own bodies as we do about what’s fed to the animals on our plates—because our health depends on it.

Let’s break it down:

  • Grains: Bread, pasta, corn, cereal and crackers cause rapid spikes in blood sugar, similar to how grains fatten livestock.
  • Vegetable oils: Canola, Vegetable, Soybean and other cheap oils are linked to inflammation and obesity—just like the oils added to animal feed for rapid weight gain.
  • High-fructose corn syrup: A key driver of insulin resistance and obesity, found in sodas, snacks, and sauces.

Just like the animals we eat, humans are packing on pounds faster and getting sicker as a result.

And much like those animals, we’re relying on drugs—metformin, insulin, blood pressure meds, and more—to manage the diseases brought on by our diets.

The Bottom Line

Farm animals are fed to get fat fast, but at the cost of their health—and yours.

If you want to avoid the same fate, it’s time to ditch the standard American diet of processed junk and get back to real, whole foods.

Otherwise, we’re just feeding ourselves into the same metabolic diseases that plague the animals on our plates.

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