Grass- Fed vs. Grain Beef
Daniel Ray Meek
Hotel, Restaurant, and institutional meat
10/10/13
Chef Bradley Randoplh-Adams

Today, the cow was fed can have a major effect on the nutrient in the beef. The cattle was often fed in grains, the animal we ate have been evolution by roamed free and ate grass. Many studies that had shown the nutrients in beef can be varying depending on how cow eat. It not only important how we eat, it is important the food we eat.

What the different between grass-fed and grain-fed cow? All cow starting live similar life.
Once calves were born, they start drink milk from their mother. Calves starting to roam and eat grass, shrub or whatever edible plants they find in their environment. This continues for about six to eighth month, and then the farmer will conventionally raise cows to feedlots. Large feedlot are called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ( CAFOs). That where the crowing cow is and their dung on their feet. The farmer has feeding grain-based to the cow to rapidly fatty up. The grain-based was base of soy or corn. The conventionally of cow grow faster by given drugs and hormones to grow faster, and antibiotic to survive the unsanitary living condition. The cow will be staying there for few month then move into factory for slaughtering. Grain-fed beef does not contain appreciable levels of carotenoids, for the simple reason that grains don’t contain them.

Compare that to grass-feeding cow, which the cow may continue to live on grassland for the reminder of their lives. It not that simple and different feeding practices on the cow. “You are what you eat” applies to the cows too. The cow eat can have the major effect in the nutrients composition of beef. Bloat: during the meaning of during digestion, cows produce gas and when they are on pasture, they belch up the gas without any difficulty. Grain-based feeding