Get facts on beef safety
Dennis Lamm
The Coloradan
This is in response to the article by Linda Hoffman appearing in the Life section of the Dec. 19 Coloradoan.
While the author makes some good points about grass-fed beef and the nutritional value of beef in general, I believe people should have the option of making choices based on accurate information.
After reading the article, I came away feeling she was the advertising agent for a particular producer while misstating some facts.
For instance, more than 95 percent of all beef produced in the United States is grain-fed in feedlots and raised in a scientific manner with a diet more nutritionally balanced than most people’s.
To say these cattle “eat a poor diet high in pesticide residues” and “need antibiotics to counteract disease” as a result of pesticides in the feed is simply not true. She says feedlot beef is high in steroids used to tenderize the meat.
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