Grass-fed VS Feedlot Meat: The Nutrient Showdown That Will Shock You

[@HSHeart723]

We purchase 1/2 beef from a 100% grass fed and finished, local rancher, yearly. I've also purchased lamb from them as well. Nothing beats the flavor or nutrients of animals raised the way God intended!

[@DragonToothless2517]

Half cow you mean?

[@swamphawk6227]

Not related to the video, but I turned the carcass of my thanksgiving turkey into about a gallon of bone broth. I’m pretty pleased

[@walkingmckinney]

@@swamphawk6227 yay!! That is what I’ve been cooking all day. Love it.

[@AH-yu2pi]

swamphawk6227 but I'm proud of and happy for you. 😃

[@goshdarnit]

Very good job❤

[@goddesstc]

Same here. There is no comparison to home made broth. It is so good!

[@SarahPerine]

Great job using your turkey bones! Most people don’t know how to do that🙌🏽 I cook a whole chicken I raised and slaughtered every other day for my four dogs. After I remove all the meat, I cook the bones for 12 hours and then the dogs get the bone broth with the next day’s meat. I’m so pleased using every last bit of the bird and not wasting anything. I raised my birds to grow really big so there’s so much food with each bird. I’m more of a red meat person, so I feed my farm dogs poultry and save the red meat mostly for myself!! In the coming year, they will eat lamb and pork I raised and I’ll also make bone broth from those.

[@brianhoward1245]

Red meat is the real superfood.

[@gerrylarson3675]

I like what you're doing, but . . .: Be careful about painting a broad stroke around labels including grass fed, regenerative raised, organic, certified Angus, feedlot fed, or grain fed. One study quantifying some phytochemicals cannot take into consideration all the varied programs out there. Pretty much all "feedlot fed" beef spends 65- 82% of its life on some of the most natural, organic range and pasture before going to a feedyard where they are typically well cared for and fed rations of grains, other nutrients and forages for fast efficient finishing. Its is also very likely that a "regenerative" grown beef could be under nourished. So all id like to convey is that these labels don't quantify any quality necessarily. AND good beef is still good beef and 99% the same in nutrient profile wherever it comes from. Tenino Wa lamb and beef producer.

[@LtColDaddy71]

There is a lot more variability in grass finished compared to grain finished. I am a grass finished producer, but I also raise separate genetic lines that are more desirable on the commodity market. I only finish grass fed genetics. Conventional beef gets too big, heavy, and hard on the land. It’s a big concern for me, I’m raising organic no till crops on the same acres. Thus I sell off calves as they grow, throttling the impact on cropland. Eat as clean as you can, as you can afford it.

[@safffff1000]

Greg Judy only raises 1000lb south poles 100% grassfed. Says they don't damage the sol very much in heavy rains

[@es4582]

Voting with our $$ is a great way to put it!! Vote for grass fed beef!!

[@justinklenk]

Preach, brother, preach. This is GREAT information - and you have an AWESOME channel. 👍

[@sarahb.6475]

At the one supermarket here, the regular feed lot beef costs MORE than the grass fed! That shocked me! I have no idea why it costs more. But I have been only eating grass fed now for years.

[@Mori]

We truly are what eat in the most literal sense.

[@smarterworkout]

Most cattle start off grassfed. They only stay a very short while in feedlots.

[@travisjazzbo3490]

But the junk they get in feedlots to 'finish' them is just that, junk, grown with a lot of chemicals for that extra weight to put on them.

[@spyroninja]

​@@travisjazzbo3490"chemicals" lolol

[@LuIsSaNcHeZ510]

The ultimate experiment would be pasture raised for life cows, vs cows that we made super unhealthy with grains, and then pasture raise the unhealthy cows until they’re healthy again and see the difference.

[@SlightlyTarded]

"Grass fed, grain finished" is the same as "Grass fed, grass finished l"

[@marykathaight4948]

​@@SlightlyTardedNo....

[@rednarok]

It is logically obvious an animal that moves and eats diverse plants has more nutrients, you don't need studies to taste and see the difference

[@esecallum]

exactly

[@enjoixander]

Science has gradually shifted from uncovering the mechanisms of reality to providing data to validate a profit-driven outcome. Truth, health and happiness are simple. People are fooled by scientific jargon and think everything must be so much more complicated and beyond them than it really is.

[@curtismatsune3147]

Making perfect the enemy of good is irrational, particularly when what's being advanced as perfect isn't.

[@TampaDE5]

Nice point. For most people, giving up fast food and just cooking your meat (grain or grass fed) is a great step. Grass fed beef is so ridiculously expensive now it makes me sick.

[@brianbachmeier34]

Make America Healthy Again

[@torsteinhvitur1656]

Grass fed red meat is also higher in omega3s. However, one cheap sardine has a LOT more omega3 than an entire grass fed steak. probably the same with the phytochemicals. Unless you are carnivore only a more cost effective approach is to get protein/fat from the best animal source you can personally afford, and have some veg/berries/sweet potatoes for phytochemicals.

[@amyfarrell8799]

Thanks for this video. So many people tell me they prefer the taste of grain fed beef and that its just as healthy as graas fed. I always disagree.

[@glaciermax24]

The sacred cow is a great book and resource by the way . Joe Rogan had both authors on and I read it and come from raising livestock myself . It makes all the difference, worked with sheep and chicken myself

[@josephmoilliet8194]

Told you Mike😂. Thanks for looking deeper. Omega 3 fatty acid is also 4x times higher than grain fed red meat and can be even higher the healthier and more diverse the forage. CLA is also infinitely higher in pasture finished as CLA is only found in green legumes and especially high elevation pastures and grain acids have shown to displace virtually all CLA in just 3 months of grain feeding. The studies have been out there for decades but grain farming and feedlot feeding is far more promoted by big AG business (like Bayer, who bought out Monsanto) as grain farmers didn't know how to grow grains without chemicals fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide thanks to AG Colleges that are either funded by big AG or the government that is lobbied by big AG. What studies do you think they will fund?

[@lucylane7397]

Glad I live in the uk where most beef is fed on grass year round

[@carnivorechronicles]

I don’t think cows eating hay during winter is as good as fresh grass.

[@DragonToothless2517]

@@carnivorechronicleshay is still better than corn right

[@onerider808]

The UK is so much better. Every comment on every subject implies the same, but observed reality never seems to bear that out. It seems like the whole country has (apologies to Mark Knopfler) supercilious disease.

[@jelizabethpetrie6656]

This is my gripe with the Dutch Farmers that are Effiency and greenhouses, its not natural and raised in the sunshine and given a nice life before slaughter

[@minimal9001]

Id never ever cook a bone marrow or broth stew with meat that isnt organic or organic grass fed. And i can say bison is so good, maybe because of this.

[@sewcat6486]

Grass fed better is exponentially better tasting then normal butter

[@wflai98]

I think poultry generally cause less inflammation due to the absence of Neu5gc.

[@walkingmckinney]

This is all fine and good, but I cannot afford to pay $12-18 per pound for grass fed grass finished beef from a local rancher. I have searched all over north Texas and south Oklahoma looking for the best deal on a side of beef. Pasture raised chicken is also 4 to 6 times the cost of regular chicken around here. Would be great to buy better quality meat, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon for most of us.

[@safffff1000]

I'v been buying frozen 100% grassfed burgers at Costco for $5 a pound for many yrs

[@sweetaznspice1]

Isn't it ironic how we live in a society where an average middle class income earner can't afford something as basic as grass fed/naturally raised meats? Meat quality is so much better in just about all parts of Europe and even in developing countries like Vietnam.

[@walkingmckinney]

@ me too and at Aldi. But Costco has gone up to $7 per pound for those burgers I noticed a couple weeks ago. I do still buy the Aldi ground beef when on sale though. But it doesn’t come on sale very often.

[@safffff1000]

@@walkingmckinney I just bought them in Springfield MO. 5lb for $25 last week

[@ImMrEm]

I buy some limited grass fed items eg ground meat. I definitely buy pasture raised eggs.

[@alz.7716]

I had thought that it was illegal to raise bison in feedlots.

[@DragonToothless2517]

Wild animals right

[@sj6404]

That venison is looking better than ever.

[@DoctorHemi]

Good video, thanks! However, let's not kid ourselves, grass fed's price is not "a little bit more", it's significantly more (like 40-50% more comparing normal prices and as much as 100% more when you consider the conventional beef occasionally goes on sale...the grass fed beef rarely does).

[@riceisnice444]

Have you ever been downwind of a feed lot? It makes me happy I thrive on starches and went 100% vegan.

[@TOSStarTrek]

Fat is good for you.

[@onerider808]

There are essential fats and proteins, but no essential carbs or cheetos.

[@TOSStarTrek]

@@onerider808 Stuffed myself for Thanksgiving and will pay for it the next two weeks.

[@jasond4752]

Actual comparisons start at 5:10

[@searlearnold2867]

Cattle can be in the feedlot for 90 days up to a year, but don't think that your grass finished beef is automatically superior. If you are buying from a grass finished supplier, ask them if they supply free choice mineral supplements to the herd. This is a large box with individual powdered minerals that the cows can smell and eat which ever one they are deficient in. (Amazing they can smell what they need). All in one mineral mix would be a second choice, but better than nothing.

[@SarahPerine]

I have that mineral feeder for my cows and it is astonishing to watch them self-select!! I wish I was that in-tune with what my body needs!! The main hope is that over time, the cows remineralize the pastures🙏🏽

[@JonJaeden]

If the effect of Make America Healthy Again is people abandoning the standard diet that has made us sick, the shift in demand for meat protein and fat will drive prices through the stratosphere. The required expansion in pasturage and processing facilities will likewise soar. The long-term storage advantage of processed carbs will be replaced by greater demand and capacity for refrigeration. And the impact on the environment -- good or bad -- will change. I'd like to see some discussion of what this monumental change would look like.

[@searlearnold2867]

@@JonJaeden You can get great info on this if you look up The Savory Institute and Joel Salatin.

[@JohnA...]

Thats great... Now if it wasn't 4x (or more) the cost then the average person could afford to buy it. Let alone the fact that we are neglecting the overall availability of the average person to have access to such things because it is the very processes that we use today that allow us to have the ability to feed the populations we have. So even if the average person could afford it we wouldn't have enough to feed them all with it with the current farming/ranching structures.

[@Alex-ml3zx]

It’s simple. It has 2x the nutrients, but costs 4x more. So…just eat 2x the cheaper meat 😊

[@1337GigaChad]

Love it 👍🏻

[@user-bv1ss5nj9b]

But direct from a farm/ranch you trust. Talk to them, be sure of their practices, and buy direct. I do not buy any animal products from a grocer except occasionally a sheep/goat cheese from Whole Foods (local or EU farms).

[@GilmerJohn]

Well, feed lot fating is cheaper than grass lot fating. Perhaps ways need to be found to make that compounds in factories.

[@DragonToothless2517]

You mean protein from insects?

[@aintgonnaworrynomore]

Thanks Mike. Bless you for spreading this information. I don't give a rip about carbon sequestration , do you prefer optimal nutrition. Also, drive-by a feedlot on a hot day in August and you will naturally prefer grass finished.

[@jeppertalks]

Great timing with this video. Last week, I bought a ribeye at Raleys and I could just taste the CORN in every bite. Still a tasty ribeye, but the corn was so strong that I felt a bit disturbed... so I went to Whole Foods and got some beef flanken ribs. Oh my god, they were the best thing I've eaten in months! The only reason I've been buying from supermarkets is because I'm cheap, but prices have gone up quite a lot in the past few months. I was shocked to see that Whole Foods meat was the same price as supermarket meat now lol. Guess it's time to start going grass fed :)

[@billycranston]

I've also noticed it a lot where I live as well. My local natural grocers are almost on par with most of the other markets in the area. I just tell myself the $3 is for better tasting meat and go along my way.

[@jeppertalks]

@@billycranston It's not even more expensive at whole foods. It's literally the same price right now for me (Bay Area)

[@sj6404]

My deer tastes like acorn! 🤣🤣🤣

[@curtismatsune3147]

@@jeppertalks No, your beef doesn't taste like corn. That's ridiculous.

[@chrisbell8418]

This is interesting, but I think we need to look at outcomes also 😅like Hong Kong. They have one of the highest life expectancy, eat the most meat and move a lot while still having a lot of pollution. They also mostly eat pork and chicken. I feel grass finished will always be better for you and it’s what I eat all of the time but I find these other factors so interesting. Another great video Mike.

[@onecarnivore]

This is interesting, but I would like to see the difference between grass fed/grass finished and grass fed/grain finished which I believe is most beef. I've heard the difference is slight. I would have expected that the 100% feedlot/pen raised is not great.

[@onerider808]

Doc, I’d prefer grass-fed buffalo, but I’d take feedlot beef over any GMO vegetable or uber-processed food. Just saying.

[@comptytom]

We eat grass fed lamb and beef, but in moderation due to the brain damaging NU5GC sugar content that Dr Gundry talks about.

[@jennifermarlow.]

I read that study. It's funded by a pharmaceutical company. JS

[@spyroninja]

Dr gundry is a quack

[@TJ-gv4tz]

Gun dry is 7th day, doesn’t eat meat

[@jennifernebraska9728]

Funniest thing ever heard. Broiler chickens don’t have the lift to breast ratios to fly. We raise poultry on pasture using a net fence to keep them in place. Our chickens are strong, healthy and yummy. I chuckle at the puny roasted chickens at the store.

[@spyroninja]

Diminishing returns. Not worth the extra cost for me.

[@josephmoilliet8194]

Check out "Understanding AG" who helped to fund and conduct the study Mike mentioned here. And Mike, you REALLY REALLY need to get Allen Williams on a podcast. He is the head and creator of Understanding AG. Smartest farmer you will ever speak with!

[@roginutah]

My question is if a cow would naturally eat those "grains, etc." that they are finished on. If so, I'm good with it. And why does grass-fed cost more than grain-finished? Isn't the extra fat something we're after?

[@korban007]

I look at animals as conversion machines, they eat health, you eat health. It’s a cycle

[@johnkornacki850]

It would be helpful if you could include a link to, or even the name and source of the study.

[@DerrickLytlephoto]

0:25

[@DragonToothless2517]

This is the evidence which is exactly what I need……..

[@winsomewife7112]

There's less regenerative chicken farming bcz you have to protect them from raccoons, weasels, minks, possums, hawks, eagles, and they still die in the heat or if they get pushed over and can't get back up bcz they're over 8-10 lbs and very wide backed broilers. I HATE when that happens the day or two before processing. You have to feed chickens in pasture pens and bring them water daily, and they're more difficult to feed/water/process lb for lb compared to large ruminants. We've raised laying chicks, hens, roosters, started pullets, broilers, geese, turkeys, ducks, goats, dairy cows, horses, cats, dogs, and more over the years. I want to try beef calves & sheep next. Dairy cows are far more difficult than dairy goats, not as fun, and goat milk is healthier for people than cow milk, and Nigerian Dwarf goats are very efficient for high cream milk, much less skim milk waste. But the chickens do really love clabbered skim milk, and skim milk is good for garden fertilizer and I hear that if you dilute it with 10 parts water to 1 part skim milk and spray on leaves it will reduce powdery mildew problems. Gotta re-apply after rain though. Skim milk is high glycemic compared to full fat high cream milk, so I never drink skim milk any more. It's also easier to hand milk a lot of NDG goats bcz you get a break every half-1 qt when you change goats. It was brutal trying to milk out 6 quarts from 1 goat and 3 quarts from the next, when I had only 2 large breed goats. So I added NDG to my herd. Much easier and cuter. I'll be getting a milking machine to milk the large breed does, I have 5 now, and I hope to raise beef calves on their milk. Calves need that higher water content milk anyway.

[@malackfortar]

Now look into feed lot cattle and Bovaer. The decision to eat grass fed grass finished is simple. Talk to your farmer. Understand what you are consuming.

[@getter_done]

Right on! 👍

[@2ndstreetmarvel]

💪🏿Let’s go!💪🏿

[@scottheitmanmarinesurvey3557]

this video is making me hungry

[@ken3marcus]

Is Costco "100% grass fed" hamburger also grass finished?

[@DragonToothless2517]

Good question…… Let’s email Costco and find out……

[@ddwmai]

Does the same thing apply to butter that is sourced from grassfeed cows?

[@cap007a1]

Did the study cover grass raised corn finished? Pretty sure most US Beef grows up on grass for most of it's life then hit the lot in the last bit before slaughter.

[@toddboucher3302]

Interesting I’ll have to take a look it up. Sean Baker says there is absolutely no difference in nutrition compound he said now could be better for the land. It could actually have a better taste to it. He says, but as the chemical make up of nutrition, he said it’s no different now this study might look at something different. I don’t know Personally I’m eating about 2 pounds of ground beef every day so I’m on a real pretty limited budget and I’m probably every once in a while I buy one or 1 pound grass finish ones but most of the time I’m buying like a tube that I can get a little cheaper Cause the only problem I see with somebody studies like this one is somebody that would go into a all meat, healthier diet for them might not do it because I’ll say well. I gotta have that stuff and I can’t afford it and look at the two prices of ribeyes when they say grass finished that they’re quite expensivebut it’s still I still think carnivore or eating more meat is cheaper than anything else probably even with the grass finished so but I’ll be interesting. I’ll start looking some stuff up.

[@BluePoo52]

Whoa whoa I thought all bison had to be pasture raised in America anyway?

[@samuelgaver7757]

Why do you jump to pasture raised from grass finished bison which is the title of the article you are citing?

[@RagdyAndy]

who would have thoguh natural food would be best

[@Dav-S5658]

Cool, but I can't afford it, so it doesn't matter

[@flamesintheattic]

The difference between cheap grocery meats vs high quality meats is really obvious. Totally different colour and taste.

[@curtismatsune3147]

Please tell everyone what grocery store is selling cheap meat so we can stock up.

[@omariwheat4784]

Chickens can’t fly.

[@adrian_sanchez]

Depends on how you define flying and a variety of factors like age and type of chicken. I've seen some "propell" themselves by flapping their wings and jumping probably around a good 10ft in the air. Most chickens don't care to do it as long as they are safe. If they are in a fenced area and they want to get out, they can.....I think his point is, mass producing chickens for public consumption while also being "grass finished" or "grass-fed" is challenging to say the least.

[@richardordonez8331]

Some can but not very far. I saw a hen on top of a telephone pole after being chased by a dog. He should have said, chickens like to scratch, meaning forage for food.

[@Alex-ml3zx]

Ok, but it’s 5x more expensive. So just eat 2x the cheaper meat.

[@Myo.mechanic]

Digestion has a metabolic cost. Better just live in a smaller home honestly

[@SkedgySky]

What's going on with his speech? ... Maybe a bit too much fasting and nutrient loss. 🤪

[@DragonToothless2517]

Are you ok?

[@patriciadanielasaravia3412]

✅

[@therange4033]

What you say is true, but MANY people cannot afford ANY red meat! Let alone grass-fed!

[@JDB61698]

$8 for pound of grass fed organic ground beef. Nothing as nutritionally dense is cheaper

[@safffff1000]

You either pay now for good food or suffer greatly and pay more later eating junk

[@spyroninja]

The nutrition difference between grass fed and grain finished is marginal but the cost is not​@@safffff1000

[@sarahb.6475]

You can afford it when you cut the other bad foods out.. Go carnivore. Or almost carnivore with a little fruit maybe or coffee / tea. But that is how I afford it. I dont buy the other junk that I cannot eat. Why waste $$ on food that only gives you ear ringing (tinnitus) like a banana or a carrot or an orange etc? Why buy grain when it makes you horribly sick due to celiac + corn allergy? But you eliminate those foods and buy meat.

[@kronos77]

You can buy beef for 4 dollars a pound at Aldi. Carnivore is cheaper than almost any other diet.

[@eveelliot2109]

..I buy halal meat from Turkish butcher. The meat is delicious 😋 I will never buy the deceased freshly wrapped meat from a mainstream supermarkets again.

[@jennifermarlow.]

My butcher is Lebanese, also halal, and low prices. Soooo good. :)

[@RagdyAndy]

STOP THE STUPID CAMERA ANLGLES