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
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.
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.
The beef I buy is pasture raised & grain finished. High quality with the great taste that comes with grain. This was a bit of a puff piece even though I generally agree with the reasoning.
Interesting. I avoid the grain-finished beef for 2 reasons: first is that the meat's flavor, texture, & marbling is far superior to grain-fed. And the second biggest reason is, have you seen how cows are "grain-fed? It's absolutely disgusting and very inhumane. I encourage you to watch the clip I did which opened my eyes to what really goes on with the grain fed cows, in "Food, Inc". I saw this just 6 months ago. It should still be available. I believe it was on Substack, too, inside another authors writing.
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
You also fail to mention what type of grass the cattle are eating. Blue grass isn't native to many areas. Rye grass is a grain & very common. Clover is also common for cattle pastures and that's a legume. This really borders on propaganda.
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…
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
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.
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.
Thanks John. I'll work this into my next blog post.
The beef I buy is pasture raised & grain finished. High quality with the great taste that comes with grain. This was a bit of a puff piece even though I generally agree with the reasoning.
Interesting. I avoid the grain-finished beef for 2 reasons: first is that the meat's flavor, texture, & marbling is far superior to grain-fed. And the second biggest reason is, have you seen how cows are "grain-fed? It's absolutely disgusting and very inhumane. I encourage you to watch the clip I did which opened my eyes to what really goes on with the grain fed cows, in "Food, Inc". I saw this just 6 months ago. It should still be available. I believe it was on Substack, too, inside another authors writing.
I buy directly from my neighbor's farm. You've fallen for propaganda.
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
Thank you! This was excellent.
You also fail to mention what type of grass the cattle are eating. Blue grass isn't native to many areas. Rye grass is a grain & very common. Clover is also common for cattle pastures and that's a legume. This really borders on propaganda.