To start with, https://maps.google.com/maps?q=tascosa+feedyard+texas&ll=35.171563%2C-102.107695&spn=0.004166%2C0.006373&hq=tascosa+feedyard&hnear=Texas&t=h&z=17, as seen from space. This is where your food comes from. Any comments?

cool?

If you order processed meat in the form of, let's say a burger, that meat will involve hundreds if not thousands of cattle. Effectively, you've probably eaten some of the little dots on that land. (Since those dots are cows.)

Those dots are making me hungry .

Funny...I live very near there, and I see those everyday. What you don't know is, that at feeding time around 6-8, a fog of dirt, crap, and general grossness rolls in. But, as they say, it's just the smell of money!

I'm not sure what the OP is getting at. Our food must come from some place right? So OP, what's the problem?

The smell of manure from livestock...my grandfather used to call that fresh air, of course he grew up an old farm boy back in the early part of the 1900's. Funny thing is that whenever I get out into the country and smell that manure, I can't help but to think the same thing.

When I was in Kansas I drove by a Pig processing farm---the smell was a thing of legends and it didn't help on the way back home I ran into skunks every 30 min. .

OP, are you from Amarillo as well?

And they were delicious.

It's just a little gross - the amount of pollution in that lake is incredible...

There's nothing wrong with that---it puts hair on your chest .

After reading so much about the overuse of antibiotics in the U.S. food supply, that lagoon looks like a breeding ground for disease. That's what really bugs me about it.

So... what? That lake isn't for drinking. The cows certainly don't drink from it. It's just a sewage overflow lake. Nothing to really care about.

Reminds me of the salt or chemical mines from space..

I'm pretty sure they have mosquitoes, that can travel from pen to pen. The issue is having that many animals packed into that small of a space, with little to nothing in the way of waste treatment. Imagine having a thousand humans living right outside a lagoon, with no waste treatment of anything that enters it - I've seen lagoons that deal with human waste. They don't look like this. They looked like regular ponds, enough so that people had to be told not to swim in there - it wasn't until they knew WHY that they agreed to stay out.

Zoom out, dem circles.

Yeah, the 'family farm' doesn't exist anymore. It's just a bunch of automated equipment and a couple feedlots.

So what? The family farm isn't necessary to feed us anymore. Mass production allows many more people to avoid starving in the word today. Family farms, on the usual scale, cannot feed tens of thousands of people.

This is why we have quality control for mass produced goods. Nothing wrong with family farms going the way of the dodo for society. It svcks for the family farms, but well...that is progress. The modern world demands modern solutions.

don't forget the extra toes!

hey go to the op's link and type in navada area 51! I know its been done before but its still fun to pop in on the government for a change! I'm going to try the white house next or maybe the pentagon?

Meh. I'll develop immunity to it.

But how does it taste?

People complain about GMOs and automated farming, but they won't be complaining about those when they realise these things help lower hunger than it is today. You can't have it both ways. Family farms worked when we were like 13 colonies, but in a nation and world with a booming population every day, it's hard for small farms to meat the demands of all those hungry mouths, unless you want to start eating Soylent Green.

http://youtu.be/NxD2VmZiLJ0?t=46s .

i see what you did there...