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Grass-fed beef is leaner than fattier corn-fed beef.

• tptacek 15y ago
  And? Higher-fat proteins create satiety faster. Eating more fat doesn't make you fat. If it it's lean beef that you're after, specify "lean beef", not "grass fed beef". There are plenty of retail cuts on a corn-fed cow that are plenty lean. A corn-fed tri-tip is going to be less fatty than a grass-fed chuck. If you're aiming for lean protein, your cut selection is way more important than which cow the cut comes from. (Incidentally: I eat almost all grass-fed beef these days, since thats what my butcher sources --- but unlike pig and chicken, for which the local versions are clearly superior --- I can go back and forth on whether corn-fed beef is better or worse than grass-fed. Grass-fed is tougher and always seems to have that aged beef funk, which is sometimes welcome and sometimes not.)
  • rudiger 15y ago
    It's hard to find reliable sources, but there's evidence that the difference between grass-fed and corn-fed beef goes beyond just having lower or higher fat content to things like fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid. I don't know how much these things matters, if at all. (Incidentally: I prefer to eat the beef of an animal that is free-range and grass-fed, then finished with some healthy corn feed without drugs.)