A good argument for grass fed, pastured beef over grain fed, feed lot beef

MSN is the last place i would go for a definition of a Cowboy. Fact is there is a lifestyle ingrained with tradition, honor, and all around class. The fact remains there are very very few that still abide by "The Old Code". On my resume i send to ranches i put a line in the bottom "Cowboy of the Old Code" most don't know what it means the rest offer me the job. I run my own operation now but when i go to hiring i look for Cowboys of the code. Auction yards are notorious for hiring the most under-qualified glory hunting weak minded men around. We agree they lack style, class and ability. Which would make their overuse of the hotshot unnecessary. I own a hotshot, i forgot where i put it. Haven't used it in years.

Some may be living longer, but are they quality years? How many are spending a small fortune on medical treatments? How many are on some type of life support? How many can't take care of themselves and have to hire help or go into a "home" where care is provided? In the old days people were mostly active right up to the day they dropped. Today we are nursed along and kept breathing even when our bodies are worn out and used up.

In my family people are dying younger than they did before. We used to have a lot of old timers who celebrated age 100, now many are dying as young as 60. I think it's cause they moved to town and eat processed foods instead of staying on the farm and growing their own.

BTW: my 94 yo dad has had bacon & eggs for breakfast most of his life. He grew up on raw milk, home grown veggies & meat. Docs tell him he has the body of 60 yo man.

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In the old days people died of cancer the first go around i know several people who are very active who would have been dead even 20 years ago. We have medications that allow people with chronic conditions to function. Don't get me wrong i'm not advocating tofu and veganism. I think we (society) just get caught up in this everything is terrible for you except organic salad mentality. I eat meat and not just alittle. I think modern medicine is good, i also think that as a society we act like certain death awaits us if we eat modern foods. Balance is the answer. Balance in thinking, eating, working and being.

If you've got a health problem there's a pill you can swallow to mask the symptoms. There's another pill to mask the symptoms of the first pill you took. There are more doctors, more equipment and new techniques waiting for us to get sick. I say eat anything raised naturally, the way it was designed to be raised, such as grass fed beef. Eat it in moderation - food is meant to keep us alive, not kill us. If you have to open a box to cook a meal rethink your menu and use real food. Stop using machines a little and your body a lot more, and be healthy.

Excellent point. We waste a ridiculous amount of food and non-renewable resources.

A minimum of five days of young animals, longer for older animals.

Jim made a point about genetics. The farm I work on one day a week raises grass fed meats. We're in Maine. In the spring they'll be going to New York to pick up replacement sheep that are raised on pasture. They bought their cattle from a grass fed herd. We've done so much to alter animals to what we think they should be we've created problems. It isn't natural for a cow to not be able to survive on grass from a well managed pasture but a lot of them can't.

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What cow can't survive on good pasture?
Where do you come up with that?

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I need to rephrase that to: It isn't natural for a cow to not be able to survive on onlygrass from a well managed pasture but a lot of them can't.

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You'd have to have some sort of reference to back that one up. It's a load of hogwash.

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I would say that these thread is sufficiently off course to justify closing it.

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