Sustainable Meat vs Corn Fed (Video)

Here’s an interesting video on how corn-fed beef came about, and what the implications are for us.

I think it’s a very valid point that we should take an interest in where our food comes from.

It’s our health- we are what we eat!

 

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  • Good video – similar stories about what it takes to create one pound of Salmon. (it takes 3 lb. of feed to grow 1 lb. of salmon, for instance (mainly fishmeal; as a Dutchman, it pains me to know that 70% of herring caught goes into fismeal)

    The key point however is about the use of antibiotics, too. It is not only that 70% of antibiotics produced go into the feed – another industry lobbying I am sure – it is the fact that we humans get confronted with resistant bacteria (MRSA) that are now the biggest problem in hospitals in Germany and other countries (another best kept secret). So while the story on the Omega fats seems convincing – if we stop eating carbohydrates the way we do, and start adding linseedoil into our daily food intake, we can make things better.
    Convincing research on the fats on http://www.udoerasmus.com/firstscreen.htm
    great book, too:

    Challenge with all this is the systemic nature of the problem – corn industry lobbies government, government subsidises, we get more cheaper meat of the wrong nature. Only by stopping eating meat, or shifting to “bio” meat, as it is called in Europe and Switzerland, we can make the shift. The general public however cannot afford the 2x more expensive bio meat. So the market pull remains. Tacky issue.

    Thanks for posting this – the word has to go out to more people about this.

    • Richard, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! You’re absolutely right, it’s a massive problem with so many vested interests that it’s difficult to know how to solve it. There are always people who will want cheap meat, and big businesses and governments who want them to have it, irrespective of the REAL cost to the environment and to our health. The massive use of antibiotics is scary, and I suspect it’s a problem in hospitals in developed countries world-wide. Those are great resources, and I didn’t know about AquAdvantage salmon, oh dear! Thank you!

  • The more I READ about beef, the less interested I am in eating it.Off to get some fresh fruit for breakfast…
    Sonya Lenzo

  • For the last eight years I have supported our local grass fed beef supplier. There really is a HUGE difference in the quality of grass fed VS corn fed (or whatever they are fed) beef.

    In our family we are also not eating meat at every single meal. One of the things that I really liked in the video you posted was the reminder to eat more greens. I tell people that they should think of their dinner plate as a pie chart and divide it up into 80/20. 80% greens (or veggies) and 20% meat.

    Please keep the great videos and blog posts coming. You have a great and highly informative website.

    Yours In Health!

    G.E. Moon II

  • Clare,
    I have a rule and it works for me. I cannot eat something that I cannot kill myself. I eat fish. Good video.

  • Grass fed beef is a good source of CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) that helps you lose body fat – especially abdominal fat.

    As a kid we had gardens and chickens. I miss the quality of the food I ate back then.

    Sabrina Peterson, NASM CPT, CES

    • Indeed it is Sabrina, and abdominal fat poses such a health risk that it’s wonderful to have something tasty that can help with it. Thanks for your comment!

  • At one time, back in my M&A days, I did due diligence on a Feed Yard. I think it was about 2 years before I ate beef.

  • I must say that the latest press about beef and meat in general does not promote a hearty appetite for it.
    Be Well.
    Jc

  • I have heard that our ratio between Omega 6 and Omega 3 is actually nearing 20:1. We are so far out of balance and our health is showing it. I have asked so many times “how in the world did we get so far away from how we are supposed to live and eat?” We are screwing up our food and hurting animals for the almightly dollar.

    Yours In Health!

    Dr. Wendy

  • Companies always advertise to their weakness! “Corn is the healthiest thing for cows to eat” type thing.

    LOL

    Great Book on the subject: The Ominvore’s Dilemma

    • Very true Shane – and cattle do love corn, especially when it’s mixed in with chocolate and other stuff. Doesn’t mean it’s good for them, but they do like it – like we enjoy some things that aren’t healthy for us!

  • My family has a cattle ranch. I wish I could get them to go toward grass fed only but the cost is all they look at.

    • I can understand their point of view – low costs, pretty much guaranteed market… venturing into the unknown, encountering new costs and new methods is scary. Hopefully enough of us will vote with our wallets to make change imperative – and thus less scary.

  • people are spending billions on trying to figure out how to cure cancer, heart attack and stroke and the answer is staring them right in the face every time they sit down to eat.

  • I’m thinking the same as Sonya. The more I learn about how beef gets from the farm to the marketplace the less interest I have in ever eating beef again.

    Michael

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