Originally Posted by
Glenn
Elaborate. From the outside looking it, putting steers on a pasture seems pretty easy. But I admit ignorance when it comes to beef production.
School me.
It does sound easy from the outside, but in reallity, it's not.
Very intense pasture management(fertilizing, possible irrigation, overseeding, etc), rotational grazing(more fences and waterers, making sure cattle get moved before grass becomes too grazed), moving cattle from pasture to pasture without them getting too excited(and burning what you just put on them).
Most people that I've seen/read about try to have their grazing mapped out real precisely, like down to a few hours. The cattle have to be constantly grazing and as soon as the grass becomes a little un-palatable, they need to be moved to fresher grass ASAP.
Getting beef to "market fat" is a lot harder on grass than it is on corn and takes a good bit longer.
Originally Posted by
2thDoc
and yall know I am just messing with glenn on the age thing, but I DO think today's meat is different enough than the paleolithic meat that it bears discussion.
I agree. It's been bred to be different for hundreds of years. From palatability, to ease of fattening, to amount of fat. I don't think that there is any arguing that beef(even grass fed) isn't as good for you as an elk or deer that you went out and killed yourself. I just don't think that it's near as un-good for you as most people want you to believe.
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
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