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To: Question Liberal Authority
Also, how do the beef critters get all that saturated fat in their body in the first place, when all they eat is grass?

Actually, the beef that we eat is mostly fed a mixture of corn and high carbohydrate grains. You can buy range-fed beef (cattle that eat grass only) and it is very lean; scarcely any fat at all. The last time I looked, range-fed ground beef was selling for about $6 a pound.

It is the high intake of cheap carbohydrates - refined sugar, potatoes, corn, most grains including rice; anything white and is sold in a cardboard box - that is responsible for causing fat in the animal or person eating it.

15 posted on 01/25/2010 11:57:47 PM PST by Texas Jack
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I eat almost no meat except venison and feral hogs. Last year I even added a roast beaver to the menu (the kind that build dams and eat trees, not the other kind that is normally for desert).

I have to add a bit of beef or pork fat to the Bambi-Burger and pork sausage to improve taste, but it is still a low fat product.


25 posted on 01/26/2010 3:51:24 PM PST by darth
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