Grass fed organic beef vs. regular beef?

Grass finished is leaner, grain finished is fatter (since flavor comes from rendered fat, most people prefer the taste of grain finished...same as people prefer the flavor of Kobe over regular...more fat, more flavor...that said, grass finished is certainly healthier, and a bit more responsible.

If you have to eat beef, go with organic grass fed always. Hormones and antibiotics are no good. And cows aren't meant to be eating corn.

ya...but where do you get it? i cant find it anywhere without ordering it online at outrageous prices and I aint gonna quit eating it

In Northern California, we can get Niman Ranch beef. Yeah, it seems somewhat better to me than the standard Safeway beef.

Grass fed beef has a balance on Omega 3 and Omega 6. Grain fed beef is more like 20/1 Omega 6 / Omega 3. This place has reasonable prices: http://vermontgrassfedbeef.weebly.com/.

Why people go on about the omega balance of beef is a moot point at best, and grain fed isn't 20:1. it's around 5:1 to 2:1.

For example, Beef, brisket, flat half, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised is just over 2:1 and 1/4 lb (100g's) of this beef has a total of 231mg's of omega 6 and 92mg's of omega 3

The same amount of cheerios (100g's) has 1880 mg's of omega 6's and 89 mg's of omega 3's, that's your 20:1 with 8 times the amount of omega 6's.

Animal products are always fairly low in omega 6's and generally a decent omega balance comparatively speaking and if we really want to ***** about omega 6's then we should quite consuming vegetable oils like soy, which is the number 1 oil in all processed foods with an omega balance of 7:1 and a total of 7000mg's in a tbsp. The amount of omega 6 in a big mack would shock most people and it isn't from the beef.

I'll take grass fed beef, finished on grain any day and not worry about the omega 6's I'm getting.

I recently purchased a bunch of grass-fed and finished angus beef, lamb and berkshire pork from a local farmer and I am loving it. The meat all tastes really great to me. I grew up eating locally sourced meat, my aunt&uncle and mom&dad would go in on a half cow together every year or so (I'm from the Canadian prairies so there's lots of grassy land for cows to be raised on around here). Factory meat is a bit juicier because of the amounts of fat in it, but to me it tastes kinda bland and I don't like thinking about the conditions the meat was prepared in, not to mention how the animals were treated.

I made the choice for health and the taste of the meat, but also because I find the factory farm system pretty gross. BUT I didn't stress out about it before I came into a position where I could afford to drop the money on it, and buying direct from a farmer cuts your costs significantly. I have a freezer full of grass-fed angus beef, lamb, and berkshire pork that I paid $5/lb for in a bulk pack - and it stays delicious for 6 months in the freezer.

If you're really interested I would suggest doing an internet search for "local meat 'name of hometown'", or "local organic meat 'name of hometown'" etc, to see if you can find a local source that raises the animals themselves, that's how I found my supplier (he even deilvers, and encourages people to come out to the farm to pick up their orders and see how the animals live/are treated). Or if you have any good local butchers or specialty gourmet shops that sell this kind of meat, try calling them and seeing if you can get the name of their supplier.

I buy a quarter of a cow directly from a rancher once a year and that's our beef for the year. It's grass fed and finished, humanely raised, not fed hormones (of course, cows have natural hormones), not given antibiotics unless ill. It's not certified organic but I trust the rancher, who I've had a 6 year relationship with, and whose farm I've visited.

I pay $3.75/lb for beef, butchered and packaged for us, and that goes from ground beef to Porterhouse steaks. It's leaner than corn finished and does have a little learning curve to cooking without overdrying it, in my experience, but we love it. Reminds me that it's almost time to put in our order.

Our farmer says they had their beef tested and the Omega's weren't significantly different from corn finished; that's not really a big factor for me. I like that he cares about his cows and they live a natural cow life and are slaughtered humanely.

www.grasslandbeef.com

I buy all my beef from this website and it's amazing. You won't regret it!!

unless you are going to eat everything organic -- there really isn't much of a point. ALL vegetables / fruit are loaded with chemicals that are known to cause cancer.
See those cool designs in the sky? Those are chemtrails and unless I'm mistaken the organic grass fed cows are out in pastures where the chemicals those trails come from are landing.

In a perfect world we would all still be eating stuff that wasn't filled with chemicals or genetically modified (suck it monsanto)..but we don't. So it is what it is.

There is a pretty big difference between regular beef and grass fed beef. The person that mentioned the Omega differences is correct.

Not all cattle will thrive as grass fed though. Devon cattle are the most successful type of cattle currently being used in grass fed beef operations. Most purebred Devon's have never been put on grain diets and they are truly different. I'm sure other types of beef can be raised as grass fed only, but I'm most knowledgable about Devon cattle. Another unique thing about Devon's is that most Devon farmers don't use any vaccinations or other drug treatments on them like traditional cattle farming.

While I don't consider myself an "expert" on this topic, I did grow up on a working cattle ranch that followed traditional methods of raising beef and my current employer is running a large herd of Devon's here in the United States. I've been around both practices of raising beef. Also, be aware that grass fed is not necessarily organic. Also, the USDA can certify beef finished in feedlots as "Natural".

Personally, I don't like the taste of grass fed as well as grain fed.

If we're talking taste, then grain fed for me.

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