percysunshine
Diamond Member
All Australian beef is grass fed.
Corn Fed Beef cattle in HUGE cattle farms where over 70% of all beef sold in America comes from.
And yes it would be great if all beef had free range all the time...but that's impossible. BLM and the forestry dept controls most of the pasture land...and cattle aren't even indigenous to the US. They're MOUNTAIN animals and they're terribly destructive (which is why blm and the forest service restrict their access to public lands).
Corn Fed Beef cattle in HUGE cattle farms where over 70% of all beef sold in America comes from.
I'm not sure that's accurate. My experience with the beef industry, from living in areas where ranching and farming are the primary industries, is that cattle are born in one place (not stockyards), and raised a certain age on a combination of pasture and home feed lots (pastured in the summers, brought to the homeplace and fed over the winter) until it's time to sell. Then they are taken to the big feed lots, their weight is brought up, and they're transformed into beef.
I'm sure fully 70 percent of all beef cattle spend time in stockyards. But that's not where they spend their entire lives, or even a majority of their lives. Anyone who has lived near a stockyard will tell you this. They are constantly being changed out....they only stay there for a bit.
I'd like to get off the industrial food habit, but the cost of free range food is just too damned expensive.
the new rage if grass feed beef.....myself it just reminds me of spending summers on a farm and eating the damn stuff....i am a steak ho.....i like my steak well marbled....melting on my tongue...grass feed dont do that
sometimes food trends are not good trends
And yes it would be great if all beef had free range all the time...but that's impossible. BLM and the forestry dept controls most of the pasture land...and cattle aren't even indigenous to the US. They're MOUNTAIN animals and they're terribly destructive (which is why blm and the forest service restrict their access to public lands).
"cattle aren't even indigenous to the US."
An invasive species?
Kill them all
...and send the tobasco sauce back to Honduras....and the chocolate beans back to Equidor ... and the pepper shakers back to India ... and the cinnamon mints back to Sri Lanka ... and the coffee beans back to Java ...
Screw Starbucks.
Corn Fed Beef cattle in HUGE cattle farms where over 70% of all beef sold in America comes from.
I'm not sure that's accurate. My experience with the beef industry, from living in areas where ranching and farming are the primary industries, is that cattle are born in one place (not stockyards), and raised a certain age on a combination of pasture and home feed lots (pastured in the summers, brought to the homeplace and fed over the winter) until it's time to sell. Then they are taken to the big feed lots, their weight is brought up, and they're transformed into beef.
I'm sure fully 70 percent of all beef cattle spend time in stockyards. But that's not where they spend their entire lives, or even a majority of their lives. Anyone who has lived near a stockyard will tell you this. They are constantly being changed out....they only stay there for a bit.
I don't mean to imply they stay there from birth/slaughter. Of course not.
The point I show is the unbelievable conditions in crowded feed lots made only possible thru corn feeding.
(BTW - they are not fed just corn you know...they are also fed leftover products from human food factories, like fermented vegetables, stale bread and even candy...no kidding)
the new rage if grass feed beef.....myself it just reminds me of spending summers on a farm and eating the damn stuff....i am a steak ho.....i like my steak well marbled....melting on my tongue...grass feed dont do that
sometimes food trends are not good trends
Pinneapple juice is the best marinade in the universe.
Are cows indiginous to Hawaii?