{"id":2430,"date":"2010-11-17T13:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2010-11-17T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:19:27","slug":"eating_green_is_not_what_it_ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"Eating ‘Green’ Is Not What It Appears To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Townhall.com<\/a> posted an article by John Stossel about some of the myths involved in eating ‘free-range’ beef.  <\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“Don’t believe me? Dr. Jude Capper, an assistant professor of dairy sciences at Washington State University, has studied the data (<\/em>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/36492d8<\/em><\/a>). <\/em><\/p>\n

“Capper said: “There’s a perception out there that grass-fed animals are frolicking in the sunshine, kicking their heels up full of joy and pleasure. What we actually found was from the land-use basis, from the energy, from water and, particularly, based on the carbon footprints, grass-fed is far worse than corn-fed.” <\/em><\/p>\n

“How can that be? <\/em><\/p>\n

“”Simply because they have a far lower efficiency, far lower productivity. The animals take 23 months to grow. (Corn-fed cattle need only 15.) That’s eight extra months of feed, of water, land use, obviously, and also an awful lot of waste. If we have a grass-fed animal, compared to a corn-fed animal, that’s like adding almost one car to the road for every single animal. That’s a huge increase in carbon footprints.”” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article further states:<\/p>\n

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“But what about those hormones the cows are given? Surely that cannot be good for us. <\/em><\/p>\n

“”What we have to remember is every food we eat — whether it’s tofu, whether it’s beef, whether it’s apples — they all contain hormones. There’s nothing, apart from salts, that doesn’t have some kind of hormone in them.” <\/em><\/p>\n

“So the next time you reach for that package of beef in the grocery store tagged with all the latest grass-fed, free-range lingo, remember: Not only does it often cost twice as much, but there’s no evidence it’s better for the environment or better for you.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The bottom line here is simple–if eating free-range beef or chicken makes you feel better, then go to it, just don’t think you are really doing anything significant for the environment or yourself.  Free-range may (or may not) be kinder to the animals (I suspect that depends on the farm), but it really doesn’t make a positive difference in the long run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Townhall.com posted an article by John Stossel about some of the myths involved in eating ‘free-range’ beef.  The article reports: “Don’t believe me? Dr. Jude Capper, an assistant professor of dairy sciences at Washington State University, has studied the data (http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/36492d8). “Capper … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}