What About Grass-Fed Beef?

I always encourage people to eat a more vegetarian / live food diet. That means staying away from animal protein if at all possible. But, if you want to keep meat in your diet, try to do it in the healthiest way possible. When it comes to eating beef, I strongly recommend that you consume only “organic” and “grass-fed” beef. It makes a world of difference to your body because beef that you purchase in the grocery stores, even corn-fed beef, is filled with antibiotics and growth hormones.

In the article “What About Grass-Fed Beef?” by John Robbins, who is a leading expert on the connection between diet, health, and the environment, he points out that commercially available beef in the United States is almost all “feedlot” beef because it is a faster and more profitable approach to raising cattle.

Giving the animals protein supplements and growth hormones is a way to make cattle gain weight faster, and so is feeding them corn. This is why most cattle are now placed in feedlots and fed grain, rather than allowed to roam in pastures and eat grass, which is what they would normally consume.

And because grain is so hard on an animal’s digestive system and leaves their immune systems weakened, they must be routinely fed antibiotics. It’s not a humane way to treat cattle and is just the tip of the iceberg on what these animals must physically endure by being kept in feed lots and being fed a corn diet.

Grass-fed beef is better for our systems than corn-fed beef because it is lower in artery-clogging saturated fats and provides more omega-3 fats. So, if you must eat beef, please keep it to a minimum and look for the label that says “organic” and “grass-fed.” This will ensure that even the grass that the animals graze on has not been treated with synthetic fertilizers or herbicides.

Please rent the movie “ Food Inc” You’re probably not going to like what you see but it’s the real truth.