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Yes. "grass fed" here means finished on grass. The first 600-800lbs of growth are almost always on pasture, eating a mix of forage (the grasses) and possibly s
by dgacmu 4y ago
Yes. "grass fed" here means finished on grass.
The first 600-800lbs of growth are almost always on pasture, eating a mix of forage (the grasses) and possibly supplemental feed in winter depending on location.
As I said above, most animals are finished (grown from 600-800 to final weight of about
1400lbs) on a feedlot eating grains and soy and whatnot. Those are not counted as grass-fed beef.
Feedlots are still outdoors. It's silly expensive to build a building around them. Feedlots are big.
- myshpa 4y agoYou're right about buildings and feedlots. I'm not from USA, we don't really have feedlots here. I must have been thinking about dairy cows, pigs and chickens. Crammed in buildings like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20230219172107/https://i.redd.it/bszw3bosz7ja1.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20230219172107/https://i.redd.it... https://images.ctfassets.net/ww1ie0z745y7/6Uw3q2e3Ee5LLG53DsDIvP/aaf6ccc729974ff755a476ab4d5ff75e/img-news-article-placeholder_2x.png https://images.ctfassets.net/ww1ie0z745y7/6Uw3q2e3Ee5LLG53Ds...
- dgacmu 4y agoCorrect, most chickens are raised in enclosed buildings. And most pigs are farmed intensively, whether that be fully outside or with a roof. Dairy cows in the US are a mix of confined and pastured; it's kind of an ongoing experiment. Dairy calves are more likely to be raised in some form of shelter/confinement than beef calves. (Here, a "beef calf" is one being raised specifically with the intent to raise it for slaughter; many dairy cows will end up becoming beef eventually but the path to getting there is different.) Beef cattle outnumber dairy cattle about 3:1 in the US.