Believe it or not, there’s a reason.


Cows. You’re probably familiar with them. If you’ve never seen one IRL, you’ve almost surely eaten them. We absolutely love chowing down on these big boys; in fact, the U.S. consumes 30 billion pounds of beef annually.


If you’re raising that many beef cows, you have to find ways to feed them for a low price. One way that we’ve found works wonders is by feeding them corn (because, at the end of the day, every American food product starts and ends with corn).


The problem with feeding cows nothing but corn and antibiotics is that they produce a shitton of gas, which can be pretty uncomfortable for the cow. If these gasses get to be too much, a farmer or vet might poke a hole in the side of a cow to release the pressure — lighting the resultant gas on fire in order to see whether there’s any gas left in the cow’s belly.


Here’s what that looks like:




Farmer removing bloat from a cow with a trocar and fire
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