offwidth
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Eating beef and produce from a supermarket should be the least of our worried. First world problems.
Well said Geoff.
Eating beef and produce from a supermarket should be the least of our worried. First world problems.
Just about everything we are exposed to in our environment is slowly poisoning us. Eating beef and produce from a supermarket should be the least of our worries. First world problems.
No worries at all, @Anna C If you like Pollan's work, you should also check out The Ominvore's Dilemma - also a fascinating read.
Huge fan of Michael Pollan's words:
"Eat food, Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Much better for health and longevity, kind of worse for affording vacations. I personally know of people trying to shed some body fat and were not having success until they took the plunge for organic food and grass fed meat. I have not personally taken the plunge because I don't care enough yet (I have decided to start hunting to replace my meat eventually though) but I do have a theory that the body is more concerned about intake of micro nutrients and sensitivity to toxins more than the macro nutrients. I feel that the body reacts worse to toxins in non-organic meat than it benefits from the protein. However, I get more joy from my money on other things than organic food and grass-fed meat; like the song says, "I'd rather take years off my life, than take life off my years."...Currently trying to decide if they were worth the price ... So how much better is it, especially on the health aspect? I believe it's better, but I need a little convincing. 1% better? 50% better?
Boggles my mind trying to understand this "grass fed" situation.
Only solution would be to raise my own cattle (fail, as the cattle would starve in my little yard).
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I choose to disagree here. There are likely, IMHO, many things we can't yet measure that make grass-fed beef better for us. The simple motto, for someone my age, is to try to eat food like your grandparents ate. Some of you younger folks will have to go back further than that - my father's father was born in 1895. I don't know enough about agricultural history to know if even that is far enough back, but you get the idea.Grain fed beef has a different fat profile with more Omega 6 and less Omega 3, but that adds up only to about to 130mcg per steak, unlikely to make any difference to human health.