Beef should be at the heart of your diet — but if you’re chowing down on the typical supermarket cuts of meat, you’re missing out, big-time.
That cow’s diet is just as important as your own — but instead of grazing on natural grass, most animals today are force-fed the farmyard equivalent of junk food: grain. And now, a new study shows what’s missing from your meals when you settle for that lesser of two meats.
Researchers looked at 30 years of data on the two types of beef, and found the grass-fed cows produced meats packed with healthier fats and more nutrients.
No surprise there — if you’ve been reading my newsletters, you learned all this years ago. But most consumers think beef is beef… and just load up on the weekly special.
Big mistake.
The researchers from the California State University in Chico found that grass-fed beef had healthier fats of higher quality, higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, more of vitamins A and E, and higher levels of antioxidants.
The study also found grass-fed beef had double the levels of conjugated linoleic acid. CLA — not to be confused with the ordinary linoleic acid found in junk food
— has been linked to weight loss, a lower risk of diabetes and may even help fight cancer.
The meat from grain-fed cows, on the other hand… well, at least that stuff’s cheaper, which is why it’s always on sale. But you shouldn’t eat grain-fed beef if someone pays you (unless that person’s a vegan, then eat it anyway just to spite him).
Grain-fed cows don’t just produce inferior meat. They’re also pumped full of hormones and antibiotics before being trucked off to massive, filthy slaughterhouses where germs and disease-causing bacteria are routinely packed with the meat.
So when it comes to what’s on your table, don’t go for weekly specials… visit a good butcher for the best, fattiest cuts of steak from grass-fed cows raised on small farms.
It’s not just better for you — it tastes better, too.
Sharing my beef with factory meats,