Is Grass-Fed Beef Good for Your Health and the Planet?
Dairy cattle (like sheep, deer, and other munching creatures) are enriched with the capacity to change over grasses, which we people can't process, into tissue that we can process. They can do this in light of the fact that, in contrast to people, who have just one stomach, they are ruminants, or, in other words that they have a rumen, a 45-or somewhere in the vicinity gallon maturation tank in which inhabitant microbes convert cellulose into protein and fats. In the US, in any case, around 97% of the dairy cattle raised for beef spend the last piece of their lives in feedlots, where they're taken beef corn and different grains that people could eat — and they convert it into meat wastefully. Since it takes anyplace from, contingent upon who is doing the computation and what they incorporate, four to (as indicated by certain evaluations) upwards of 20 pounds of grain to make a pound of feedlot-determined beef, we really get undeniably less food out than we put in. What we...