Grass fed meat is very different from conventionally
raised factory farmed meats.
Not exact matches
Rather than obtaining
meat from animals
raised on environmentally destructive
factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean
meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
Rather than obtaining
meat from animals
raised on environmentally destructive
factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean
meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
The vast majority of
meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals
raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called
factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.
And you know, what these folks say again, is «If the people that are buying
meat out there in the world had any idea of the way in which
meat is produced; if they had a look at, you know, inside a
factory farm where animals are
raised in their own feces and, you know, slaughtered and then ground up and so on.
Meat from naturally -
raised animals is high in omega - 3 fatty acids and often lower in calories than
factory -
farmed meats.
Avoid
factory farmed meat and instead opt for pasture
raised meat which contains more anti-inflammatory omega - 3 fatty acids.
* Avoid
meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products from commercially -
raised animals fed grains, soy, and corn from
factory -
farmed environments.
Humanely -
raised eggs are often cheaper than
meat, and even the very cheapest of
factory -
farmed eggs are extremely nutrient - dense and have a great fatty acid profile.
Factory farms certainly contribute to making animals even less healthy, but once you familiarize yourself with the issues, you can see that there are basic problems with
meat, diary and eggs regardless of how they are
raised.
Some of these
meat eating converts view buying grassfed beef and other sustainably
raised animal foods as a new form of activism similar to their boycott of
factory farmed meats when they were vegetarians.
Furthermore, these crops are, many times, used as animal feed for
farm -
raised fish and
factory farmed meats and dairy.
(Actually, a lot of toxins are stored in fat, which is another reason why it's important to buy cuts of
meat from properly
raised, healthy animals, and, that if you do buy
meat from
factory farmed animals, that you cut the fat off or buy only lean cuts of
meat.)
About 98 % of the
meat, milk and eggs sold in America comes from animals
raised on
factory farms, also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
The vast majority of
meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals
raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called
factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.
Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your
meat consumption, you may be most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness: lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating
meat supports the intense abuses against animals
raised in
factory farms.
This drastically cuts down your
meat intake, and therefore drastically cuts down the amount of
meat we as a country
raise, the amount of pollution generated by
factory farming, the amount of fossil fuel going into
raising corn which goes into
raising meat.
After all, whether you eat more humanely reared
meat, or eschew
meat all together, both options clearly reduce demand for intensively -
raised factory farm products.
Cruelty, I knew that the 10 billion animals we
raise each year for
meat, are
raised in
factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets.