I live in Australia near our mountain pastures. The meat supply is a mix of local grass fed and finished beef and lamb, and grain finished beef from up north
The grass finished meat has a healthier fat balance and tastes better
I always ask butchers where my meat was raised and how it was finished as that affects the ethics and flavour. I agree with you that meat raised on grain is wasteful.
Where’s the waste in what I buy? They drink from mountain streams, they eat grass. Most of their meat goes to human food, most of the rest goes to pet food, the skin becomes leather
When I cook more meat than I can eat, the extra goes in the fridge and I eat it for the next meal
On the relevant subreddit (which hasn’t moved to Lemmy) I have heard it’s easy to get grass finished beef in the US too
I live in a ranching state (South Dakota) where beef is processed locally, and it’s nearly impossible to get grass-fed meat. Sure, some of it is labeled “grass-fed” with a drastically higher price point (unsustainable for most people), but the whole industry is so corrupt and ethically bankrupt that it’s a meaningless label, just like almost anything else you buy here.
I remember watching a video years ago someone had secretly filmed inside of a dairy farm and the workers filled a bunch of normal milk jugs, then they switched out to filling some pseudo science bullshit cartons with a million claims on the labels about how it was made… With the same milk. These labels mean NOTHING, they never have and they never will; and you’re a massive idiot if you’re wasting extra money on anything because it has the word “organic” printed on the package.
I live in Australia near our mountain pastures. The meat supply is a mix of local grass fed and finished beef and lamb, and grain finished beef from up north
The grass finished meat has a healthier fat balance and tastes better
I always ask butchers where my meat was raised and how it was finished as that affects the ethics and flavour. I agree with you that meat raised on grain is wasteful.
Where’s the waste in what I buy? They drink from mountain streams, they eat grass. Most of their meat goes to human food, most of the rest goes to pet food, the skin becomes leather
When I cook more meat than I can eat, the extra goes in the fridge and I eat it for the next meal
On the relevant subreddit (which hasn’t moved to Lemmy) I have heard it’s easy to get grass finished beef in the US too
I live in a ranching state (South Dakota) where beef is processed locally, and it’s nearly impossible to get grass-fed meat. Sure, some of it is labeled “grass-fed” with a drastically higher price point (unsustainable for most people), but the whole industry is so corrupt and ethically bankrupt that it’s a meaningless label, just like almost anything else you buy here.
I remember watching a video years ago someone had secretly filmed inside of a dairy farm and the workers filled a bunch of normal milk jugs, then they switched out to filling some pseudo science bullshit cartons with a million claims on the labels about how it was made… With the same milk. These labels mean NOTHING, they never have and they never will; and you’re a massive idiot if you’re wasting extra money on anything because it has the word “organic” printed on the package.
Yep, things like “grass fed” or “farm fresh” are absolutely meaningless. It’s just scams on top of scams and lies on top of lies.