The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
But when you finish an animal on grains, you do a couple of things. You lose nutrients in the meat because the grains are not as nutritious for the animal as the grasses. And you introduce the potential for other things in the meat that you don't want. Things like mold toxins and things like pesticides that are sprayed on those grains.
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I prefer grass-fed because meat is raised better it's more humanely raised the meat is probably a little more nutritious because it's had the grass its whole life and it's going to have less pesticides less contaminants because it's not eating grain in a clustered feeding operation a factory farm at the end of its life
I'd rather have more fat anyway more fat more flavor I agree with you completely
I believe strongly that grass-fed beef is worth the extra cost in my opinion it tastes better it's more nutritious and it doesn't have a lot of the potential pesticides and other issues that can come along with grain finish beef
I feel strongly that a grass-fed grass finish beef is going to be better for you it's more nutritious it's better for the animal the animal stays on pass through its whole life the animal is healthier
I'm paying an extra 39 cents a pound for a grass-finish ground beef versus a grain finished ground beef. That's the only difference here at Costco. 40 cents a pound, guys. That's the difference between grain finished ground beef and grass-finish ground beef at Costco. I'm going to put those 40 cents into the grass-finish ground beef. I think it's much more healthy long term. you're not getting any of the pesticides on the grains, any of the mold toxins, and you're hoping that that cow is fed grass its whole life on a field.
I think grass-fed beef is better.