Grass-fed TOP TEN !

Score Ten for Grass-Fed Beef

Grass-fed beef is better for human health than grain-fed beef in ten different ways, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date. The 2009 study was a joint effort between the USDA and researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina. Compared with grain-fed beef, grass-fed beef was:

1. Lower in total fat

2. Higher in beta-carotene

3. Higher in vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)

4. Higher in the B-vitamins thiamine and riboflavin

5. Higher in the minerals calcium, magnesium, and potassium

6. Higher in total omega-3s

7. A healthier ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids (1.65 vs 4.84)

8. Higher in CLA (cis-9 trans-11), a potential cancer fighter

9. Higher in vaccenic acid (which can be transformed into CLA)

10. Lower in the saturated fats linked with heart disease

Did You Know?

v Roughly 25,000 square kilometers or 6 million acres of the Amazon rainforest is cut down every year for grazing cattle and to grow soybeans that are used for animal feed.

v Soybean meal and shelled corn are the most common plant proteins and grains fed to dairy cows. They are also some of the most genetically engineered crops in America, with 85% of all soybeans and 40% of all corn coming from genetically enginereed sources.

v The milk from pasture-raised dairy cows has 5 times more CLA than milk from conventional dairy cows.

v The grain used to feed livestock could feed 800,000,000 humans if used directly.

A study made by the UN found that the cattle:

-Uses 30% of the total earth’s surface.

-It.’s now grazing in 70% of what it used to be the Amazonia.

-It is responsible of the 37% of the methane induced by human beings (it has 23 times more greenhouse effect than CO²).

-Produces 65% of the nitric oxide related with humans (with potential of greenhouse effect 29 times greater than CO²).

-This report establish that eating meat causes 40% more gas emission of greenhouse effect than from all the cars, trucks and planes of the world.

-In average, if one person stops eating meat, will be saving 1.5 ton of carbon monoxide a year.