As you’ll be aware if you read the ‘28 things you may not know about Jon‘ article, I grew up in a farm.

Until the age of 18 and an on and off for the next few years through university and before I moved to Sheffield, I left and for reason right about time worked on my father’s dairy farm in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

I was driving my boys back over to their Mum’s near Bakewell the other day when Oli asked me the immortal question “Why is that cow so fat ?”.

I looked over and he was right – there was a fat cow.

In fact their were lots of them.

A field full.

Noticeably fat they were.

I told Oli, using what little farming knowledge has remained in my brain, that the farmer was probably fattening them up.

He (as he does about practically everything) asked “How?”.

A I started to explain how a farmer fattens his cattle a light bulb went off above my head.

I explained to Oli that farmers fatten their cattle by feeding them high carbohydrate diet based primarily on grains.

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You know – like most people in this country do.

Like the government have recommended since 1976.

The same time frame that our waistlines have sky rocketed as a nation.

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Now, I appreciate the nutritional requirements and internal systems of a cow are not the same as a human being.

But it’s an interesting comparison isn’t it?

Want to fatten up cows – give em a mega high carb diet, grains particularity.

The western world starts eating a mega high carb diet – grains particularly – and they get ‘fattened up’.

 

Just sayin’

 

Jon “I can’t remember much more about farming to be honest” Hall

 


Jon Hall
Jon Hall

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