Comments on The Healthy Boy: The Difference Between Grass and Grain Fed Beef

Wow, bandit, you are a fool if you think factory f...

2011-09-16T08:51:58.975-07:00

Wow, bandit, you are a fool if you think factory farm animals are treated well... Just because you were raised on a farm where cows got to walk around and eat grass and everything was sunshine and gumdrops doesn't mean that grain fed cows live the same lives. Michael Pollan is not trying to turn you into a vegetarian, but he is merely trying to show you how incredibly disconnected we are

I am raised on a beef farm. I enjoy the flavor an...

2011-05-26T22:12:37.260-07:00

I am raised on a beef farm. I enjoy the flavor and texture of grass finished beef more than corn finished beef because that's what I was raised on, the culls that we kept back that weren't good enough for the feedlot, that just ate grass around the yard. However, very few people I've ever met agree with my preference. It's tougher to chew because it's older, and has a

Grass fed is harder to find. Typically, you can fi...

2011-01-25T09:57:59.214-08:00

Grass fed is harder to find. Typically, you can find it at health food stores - and even then the selection is small

@Christine it's grain fed unless it says other...

2010-08-05T09:08:39.240-07:00

@Christine it's grain fed unless it says otherwise. Grass-fed is way too expensive for grocery stores to stock, so if they do stock grass, they'll tell you about it and charge 3x more

Ugh I got Ecoli poisoning from Topps Hamburger mea...

2010-07-26T13:02:24.868-07:00

Ugh I got Ecoli poisoning from Topps Hamburger meat in that 2009 case you're talking about. That's some badassed stuff.

My grocery store doesn't mark whether the beef is grain-fed or grass-fed. So how can you tell which it is?

Why not just eat the grains or grass yourself? Wh...

2010-07-23T20:41:11.627-07:00

Why not just eat the grains or grass yourself? Why have the cow eat 10 times the food it would take to feed a human?