I remember when I decided to “go grass-fed,” I enthusiastically brought home packages of grass-fed beef from the farmer’s market, only to be disappointed. Why? Because I was still cooking that marvelous meat as if it were the same as conventional meat.
More Advantages of Grass-Fed Beef
Yes, there are health benefits to eating grass-fed beef. But there are other advantages as well. For example, rotating cattle through pastures by allowing them to intensively graze on young, shooting grass builds an inch of fertile top soil every year! That’s because grass grows down as well as up. When a cow walks by…
Mark Bittman – What’s wrong with what we eat?
NY Times Food Writer, Mark Bittman, gave a TED talk in December 2007 on what’s wrong with our food. While I’m forever in debt to Mark for bringing us the famous No-Knead Bread recipe, and I appreciate his critique of industrial agricultural techniques in the TED video below, I think his arguments fail to see…