On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:08:58 +0100, Derek > wrote:

> Claim and Standard:
> [sbull] Grass Fed.--Grass, green or range pasture, or
> forage shall be 80% or more of the primary energy
> source throughout the animal's life cycle.
>
> Dated: December 20, 2002.
> A.J. Yates,
> Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
> [FR Doc. 02-32806 Filed 12-27-02; 8:45 am]
>
> BILLING CODE 3410-02-P]
> http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/stand/ls0202.txt
>
>These "proposed minimum requirements mean that
>grass fed beef can in fact be fed up to 80% grains for
>60 days in a feedlot, just like any other steer, and still
>qualify as grass fed beef.
[...]

>Grass fed beef, then, isn't exactly what it's name
>implies,

If you're not lying, explain how you know that ALL
grass fed beef receives the same amount of grain,
and that none of it is raised completely on grass.

>and has just as much an association with
>the collateral deaths found in crop production as
>any other steer in the feedlot.

If you're not lying, explain how you know that ALL
grass fed beef recieves as much grain as any other
steer in the feedlot, and that none of it is raised completely
on grass.

>Don't be fooled by
>the meat pushers, here or anywhere.

· From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised
steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people
get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well
over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people
get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm
machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and
draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is
likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings
derived from grass raised animals. Grass raised animal products
contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and
better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. ·