Why grass-fed beef beats grain-fed for nutrition, environment, and animal welfare — a farmer's case for regenerative ranching and the MAHA push for real food.
Mollie Englehart, a world renowned vegan restaurant owner in California, is now a cattle rancher in Texas. Her story of understanding the “food chain” and cycle of life is phenomenal.
(Wise Tradition podcast)
The Weston Price website has stories regarding the wisdom of cows whose purpose appears to be domestication and service to humans.
The mitochondria in cells makes 2/3 of its energy from light, eating food with as much light (life) energy as possible makes sense for people and cows, supporting “grass fed”.
As an expert on mitochondrial function, I can assure you that mitochondria do not use light as an energy source. Even living in the presence of more light has no effect. Grass provides nutrients that are not present in grain...such as vitamin K2. The phytochemicals found in grass-fed beef, as mentioned in the article, are just missing or present in reduced amounts in grain.
Yvonne, I respect your opinion but I suggest obtaining your information from textbooks in Cell Biology and Physiology. I am an author of over 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of mitochondrial function. My credentials are not as important as factual information on energy transduction in mitochondria. ...with respect...
Thank you for the excellent article! I'm not able to eat grain fed beef because it really messes up my digestion so I'm very grateful for all of our grass fed beef farmers like you! :) God bless our farmers!!
I like to talk about the fat souable vitamins that are found in free range animals in the natural environment. Their sun exposure, and diets give humans the building blocks A, E, D, K2 we need. Peace Dr. D
AND...Now we're hearing about Mad "Scientist" Bill Gates dropping millions of genetically modified cow ticks from crop dusters. I heard the pay to distribute the ticks from the air is BEYOND lucrative. When a human comes in contact with this genetically modified cow tick, they become allergic to red meat! Do you think this might have something to do with Gates' failing fake meat venture? I'm hearing that the tick population is crazy huge right now...
I've been cattle rancher 25 years raising Angus beef ,in all that time I've never seen a cow fart at all ever ,that's total BS ,just like there's a carbon problem again total BS ,I have 300 acres never have I had to use fertilizer other than the natural fertilizer the cows make everyday.all my neighbors come get it put on their gardens every year.now mine grass fed only ,the only difference i see is they don't have as much marbling in the meat ,that's it..but what do I know I've only been around them everyday for 56 years.
Great informative post. I will add that beef cattle arose evolutionarily to eat grass and fibrous forage. There unique ruminant biology is specifically designed to ferment and breakdown cellulose rather than digest heavy amounts of grain
I believe that mitochondria are modified chloroplasts/blue-green algae that long ago lost the ability to photosynthesize. When Yvonne says that mitochondria use light energy, she means that the food-energy mitochondria turn into ATP is originally from sunlight. I have seen interesting articles about "biophotons" and other aspects of light in animals and living organisms.
There is also research demonstrating that grass fed beef are less susceptible to E. coli, and to contributing to antibiotic resistance. The difference in rumen pH matters quite a lot, I think.
And here I had thought that perhaps cow fart were a sign that they were not digesting what they are being fed, like corn, would cows eat corn if you let them loose in the corn fields! I don't know.
Article fails to take the point further by mentioning that grass fed cows provide additional benefits in dairy milk and butter with odd chained fatty acids: C15:0 and C17:0 Their benefits are outstanding but only come because the cow ate grass and not feed. I am a degreed Nutritionist.
Here is a concern that I did not see addressed. Corn (grain) contains glyphosate from the weed killer used in producing it. It is already resulting in glyphosate showing up in OUR foods on our tables. Will, or do, the "grain fed" cattle contain glyphosate when it arrives on our tables? I, for one, prefer grass fed beef until this question is answered.
Really good article BUT I wish the lie that carbon dioxide is responsible for global warming would just go away.
Without carbon dioxide there would be no green foliage in our lives!
Yes indeed! ...and carbon dioxide is the only source of carbon for all plants.
Mollie Englehart, a world renowned vegan restaurant owner in California, is now a cattle rancher in Texas. Her story of understanding the “food chain” and cycle of life is phenomenal.
(Wise Tradition podcast)
The Weston Price website has stories regarding the wisdom of cows whose purpose appears to be domestication and service to humans.
The mitochondria in cells makes 2/3 of its energy from light, eating food with as much light (life) energy as possible makes sense for people and cows, supporting “grass fed”.
As an expert on mitochondrial function, I can assure you that mitochondria do not use light as an energy source. Even living in the presence of more light has no effect. Grass provides nutrients that are not present in grain...such as vitamin K2. The phytochemicals found in grass-fed beef, as mentioned in the article, are just missing or present in reduced amounts in grain.
I maintain my position. It comes from reading and listening to a multitude of experts in many fields of science and medicine.
Yvonne, I respect your opinion but I suggest obtaining your information from textbooks in Cell Biology and Physiology. I am an author of over 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of mitochondrial function. My credentials are not as important as factual information on energy transduction in mitochondria. ...with respect...
What makes you think I haven’t read in those areas? Those are the areas I started with, I may have even read some of your information. With respect…
Makes no sense I’ll have to look it up 🤔
Thank you for the excellent article! I'm not able to eat grain fed beef because it really messes up my digestion so I'm very grateful for all of our grass fed beef farmers like you! :) God bless our farmers!!
I like to talk about the fat souable vitamins that are found in free range animals in the natural environment. Their sun exposure, and diets give humans the building blocks A, E, D, K2 we need. Peace Dr. D
AND...Now we're hearing about Mad "Scientist" Bill Gates dropping millions of genetically modified cow ticks from crop dusters. I heard the pay to distribute the ticks from the air is BEYOND lucrative. When a human comes in contact with this genetically modified cow tick, they become allergic to red meat! Do you think this might have something to do with Gates' failing fake meat venture? I'm hearing that the tick population is crazy huge right now...
I've been cattle rancher 25 years raising Angus beef ,in all that time I've never seen a cow fart at all ever ,that's total BS ,just like there's a carbon problem again total BS ,I have 300 acres never have I had to use fertilizer other than the natural fertilizer the cows make everyday.all my neighbors come get it put on their gardens every year.now mine grass fed only ,the only difference i see is they don't have as much marbling in the meat ,that's it..but what do I know I've only been around them everyday for 56 years.
Brilliant point of knowing your product. When you are with animals everyday, your knowledge of them and they of you is a gold value.
God bless you for your lifetime commitment to our food supply.
Great informative post. I will add that beef cattle arose evolutionarily to eat grass and fibrous forage. There unique ruminant biology is specifically designed to ferment and breakdown cellulose rather than digest heavy amounts of grain
I believe that mitochondria are modified chloroplasts/blue-green algae that long ago lost the ability to photosynthesize. When Yvonne says that mitochondria use light energy, she means that the food-energy mitochondria turn into ATP is originally from sunlight. I have seen interesting articles about "biophotons" and other aspects of light in animals and living organisms.
This was a useful read. I especially appreciated the distinction between real food and highly processed substitutes.
I just bought grass-fed butter at Costco recently, so the timing made me smile. Sometimes the grocery cart gets ahead of the philosophy.
Grass fed butter simply tastes better!
There is also research demonstrating that grass fed beef are less susceptible to E. coli, and to contributing to antibiotic resistance. The difference in rumen pH matters quite a lot, I think.
Thank you! This was excellent.
And here I had thought that perhaps cow fart were a sign that they were not digesting what they are being fed, like corn, would cows eat corn if you let them loose in the corn fields! I don't know.
Great article.
Yes they will and destroy the field as well…..lol
Article fails to take the point further by mentioning that grass fed cows provide additional benefits in dairy milk and butter with odd chained fatty acids: C15:0 and C17:0 Their benefits are outstanding but only come because the cow ate grass and not feed. I am a degreed Nutritionist.
Here is a concern that I did not see addressed. Corn (grain) contains glyphosate from the weed killer used in producing it. It is already resulting in glyphosate showing up in OUR foods on our tables. Will, or do, the "grain fed" cattle contain glyphosate when it arrives on our tables? I, for one, prefer grass fed beef until this question is answered.
Shouldn’t they eat what they should ?
Thanks John. I'll work this into my next blog post.