For Those of You Who Think “Grass-Fed” Beef Is Better … We’ve Got News

“Grass-fed” or “Grass-finished” are vague, misleading labels designed to make well-meaning customers feel better about buying someone’s flesh.

Is Grass-Fed Beef Better for the Environment?

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that cows raised on pasture emit just as much—sometimes more—planet-warming gases as cows raised on factory farms. In places like South America, forests are destroyed for pastures and to grow feed for animals raised for food, and countless habitats and carbon-storing trees are lost.

Is Grass-Fed or Grass-Finished Beef Better for Animals?

Yes, cows and bulls like to eat grass. But they’re still exploited to make “beef” or butter. On today’s farms, workers often force animals to undergo agonizing procedures such as castration without painkillers, causing immense suffering. Then, after a life of suffering, they are loaded on trucks destined for the slaughterhouse. Grass-fed or not, the ending is always the same.

Is Grass-Fed Beef Better for Your Health?

Whether a cow is fed grass or grain, his flesh still contains cholesterol and saturated fat, both of which clog arteries and fuel the U.S.’s top killers: heart disease, obesity, and strokes. The World Health Organization classifies red meat as a Group 2A carcinogen—meaning it probably causes cancer. Grass doesn’t change that.

Going Vegan Is Always Better for Animals, Human Health, and the Environment

No matter what label they slap on it—grass-fed, grass-finished, regenerative, organic, “humanely raised”—meat is still the flesh of a once-living, feeling being. It still clogs your arteries, fuels disease, and supports an industry built on suffering. The good news? You can refuse to support this cycle of cruelty and go vegan.

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