Better than nothing….

….at least that was my reaction to a report Fox News carried on grass fed beef.  Never mind that the report was buried on Thanksgiving day when no one is watching television except football fans.  About the only positive notes were that grass fed beef is leaner….and that consumption is growing.

Not a word about the poisons that are poured into, onto and injected inside conventional cattle.  Nothing about the diseases (cancer, heart, diabetes, etc) that have been linked to the consumption of corn…in boxes and in cows.  No mention of the destruction of land and water in ordinary cattle production. Nothing about the huge consumption of energy required to produce the ordinary cow or about the conditions under which it is slaughtered and processed and the thousands of tons of beef that have to be recalled every year.

Other than that….better than nothing.  I guess.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/23/drive-for-grass-fed-beef/?intcmp=trending

After watching the video, Wooz commented that it was an unintended subliminal commercial for grass fed beef.  Compare the condition of the grass fed cattleman with that of the much younger professor who says “there’s no difference”.  Unfair but nevertheless…..

This report also reminds me that Big Ag has done a good job of spreading the nonsense that grass fed beef is no more nutritious than commercial beef.  Their studies take selective measure of some of the components and leave out the total picture to achieve their desired result.  And there’s the old nonsense about how grass fed beef tastes “different” or “stronger”.

Sure it tastes different.  It tastes like beef.  What you get in supermarkets and restaurants today comes in two flavors…..cardboard and highly-seasoned.  Eat a steak at the very finest restaurant and you can’t tell the meat from the chemicals that have been used in its preparation.  (MSG is the least of your worries.)

And those gourmet restaurants may tell you their beef has been aged two weeks or up to a month.  They don’t tell you about the mechanical and chemical tenderizing that goes on before that steak reaches your table.

But did we serve turkey for Thanksgiving?  Of course.  Natural, we hope, but we violated a prime rule for healthy eating:  this year we didn’t know the farmer.