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Originally Posted by Azure
Also, there is a benefit in eating grass fed beef. Health wise.
As for antibiotics, the idea against it is that they are overused and at some point we won't be able to make new ones to kill diseases. Biggest problem is that they are used as preventive measures instead of as reactive medicine. Same problem exists with humans.
The steroid side is simply about making the animal bigger than how it normally would grow to be. Obviously the diet has a lot to do with that as well.
What I don't get is that 15 years ago my family was already involved in grass-fed, no antibiotics, no steroids, etc, etc beef and we were selling it to Montana's, Earls, etc.
So there are tons of Alberta ranchers that are doing it. Why Earls is going away from it is beyond me.
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That's the part that makes me laugh. People apparently don't realise how astronomically expensive antibiotics are, they figure farmers like to spend money and chase down their calves to vaccinate them for fun. Antibiotics are administered to help a sick animal recover, not to prevent sickness, the idea of which makes no sense at all really.