Cattle and dairy cows can be grass-fed. Beef and milk aren’t fed. How about “We believe happy grassfed cows make the best milk.”
This horrible, and common, misuse of comma-separated phrases will be the subject of a future segment. It needs to be, “One ton of paper consumes 17 trees and three cubic yards of landfill space and pollutes 7,000 gallons of water.”
Cliché alert!
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