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Out of the set of mean eaters who this market would target, I really think the subset that thinks about or considers omega 3 and CLA in their meat is minuscule.

Out of the set of mean eaters who this market would target, I really think the subset that thinks about or considers omega 3 and CLA in their meat is minuscule. I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef. Guess that's another excuse for me to eat hamburgers...

maerF0x0 10y ago
Omega3 - Omega 6 ratio in fats (more omega 3 is better) may be healthier. It seems that grass fed beef has better ratios http://www.mercola.com/beef/health_benefits.htm http://www.mercola.com/beef/health_benefits.htm I'm regularly surprised by how little the average person knows about the things that make/keep them healthy. If I really wanted a car to last I'd be sure I knew all about the gasoline and oil I was putting into it.
- PerfectElement 10y ago
  There is always a link to Dr. Mercola's articles when people try to defend the health benefits of eating meat, but no one mentions that is an anti-vaxxer and has many other unscientific claims on his website.
  - maerF0x0 10y ago
    It was just the first hit in google tbh and I already knew it to be true, just needed a link to attempt to satisfy haters. Seeing as you'd rather attack than do some useful work, I'll do it for you. See below: "A healthy diet should consist of roughly one to four times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids. The typical American diet tends to contain 11 to 30 times more omega -6 fatty acids than omega -3, a phenomenon that has been hypothesized as a significant factor in the rising rate of inflammatory disorders in the United States[40]. Table Table22 shows significant differences in n-6:n-3 ratios between grass-fed and grain-fed beef, with and overall average of 1.53 and 7.65 for grass-fed and grain-fed, respectively, for all studies reported in this review."[1] [1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/
dualogy 10y ago
> I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef. Here's a rule of thumb, fresh fatty meats (incl. eggs) contain all human micronutrients except for Vitamin C and so called "phytonutrients" (that usually only make it past our livers/kidneys by accident, as far as could be observed so far in-vivo).

maerF0x0 10y ago

Omega3 - Omega 6 ratio in fats (more omega 3 is better) may be healthier. It seems that grass fed beef has better ratios http://www.mercola.com/beef/health_benefits.htm http://www.mercola.com/beef/health_benefits.htm I'm regularly surprised by how little the average person knows about the things that make/keep them healthy. If I really wanted a car to last I'd be sure I knew all about the gasoline and oil I was putting into it.

PerfectElement 10y ago
There is always a link to Dr. Mercola's articles when people try to defend the health benefits of eating meat, but no one mentions that is an anti-vaxxer and has many other unscientific claims on his website.
- maerF0x0 10y ago
  It was just the first hit in google tbh and I already knew it to be true, just needed a link to attempt to satisfy haters. Seeing as you'd rather attack than do some useful work, I'll do it for you. See below: "A healthy diet should consist of roughly one to four times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids. The typical American diet tends to contain 11 to 30 times more omega -6 fatty acids than omega -3, a phenomenon that has been hypothesized as a significant factor in the rising rate of inflammatory disorders in the United States[40]. Table Table22 shows significant differences in n-6:n-3 ratios between grass-fed and grain-fed beef, with and overall average of 1.53 and 7.65 for grass-fed and grain-fed, respectively, for all studies reported in this review."[1] [1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/

dualogy 10y ago

> I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef. Here's a rule of thumb, fresh fatty meats (incl. eggs) contain all human micronutrients except for Vitamin C and so called "phytonutrients" (that usually only make it past our livers/kidneys by accident, as far as could be observed so far in-vivo).