Have you heard of grass fed beef?
By bluemars
@bluemars (952)
Australia
May 11, 2010 5:34am CST
Has anyone heard of grass fed beef and its benefits? I am curious how many people our there know about the research and the benefits involved. I know a few people who order their meet online to get it and feed their families for fresh farm market. The prices are competitive and I guess the health benefits would be worth looking into too. No hormones, pesticides and bad chemicals involved either, wow I am really going to go and do some more reading. Anyone else buy or know of this? Curious.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
15 May 10
Here in the United States all cattle are raised on grass for about the first two years. After that they are put in feed lots to make them gain weight and grow faster. My son works on a ranch in Wyoming and they are still give certain antibiotics.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
15 May 10
It takes 5.24 acres to keep a cow depending on the land. Grass feed cattle are slaughtered between 18 and 25 months old. Those sent to feed lots are about 14 months old and are sold by the pound after being fattened with corn and grain and growth hormones. due to the rapid wight gain they are cheaper than the beef kept on grass for 18 to 24 months.
I don't eat much beef any more because of the cholesterol.
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@bluemars (952)
• Australia
16 May 10
They probably need to kill them off early too because of the fact that they don't survive long on that diet of grains which is not their natural diet and gives them a variety of problems. Their digestive system was designed for the digestion of grass. The other stuff is just cheap rubbish like the packs of junk food that is sold for us humans. It isn't good for us but we can eat it but if we eat it all the time it can make us sick and probably shorten our lives too.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
16 May 10
The farmers plant corn and grind it before the ears dry and the stalks are still green. It is put in silage pits to ferment and then sorghum or molasses is add at the time it is fed to the cattle. When my son worked on the farm he didn't feed the cattle grains. They were pretty expensive.
