Grass-fed beef ain’t no better, pardner.

A new study published March 17, 2025 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows grass-fed beef produces more methane than other livestock operations.  Even under optimistic rangeland sequestration, grass-fed beef is not less carbon intensive than industrial beef — and 3-40x (!) more carbon intensive than most plant & animal alternatives.

READ the NEW Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) STUDY: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404329122

This is just one more in a long line of studies debunking the cattle industry’s public relations pushback against the growing awareness that eating cows and cow’s milk & cheese products is cooking the planet. Since most people were raised eating beef (cows), and cow’s milk and cheese and butter and yogurt and cottage cheese and of course ice cream (think old man Joe Biden with his grandpa’s ice cream cone), we all got addicted to  the tasty stuff. (Along with pig flesh, aka bacon and sausages, and all the rest.)

Past studies have found that feedlot systems tend to have lower greenhouse gas emissions because grain-fed cattle gain weight faster than grass-fed cattle and are slaughtered at a younger age. Their shorter lives means feedlot cattle burp less planet-warming methane into the atmosphere than grass-fed cattle.  (SOURCE: Washington Post, 3.18.25)

READ MORE ABOUT the “regenerative ranching” and “grass-fed” beef industry lies, which are already widespread and consumed by millions of people who don’t really want to know the truth, because then they’d feel guilty for not giving up their meat & dairy addiction.  READ MORE.

And of course eating ANY cow products, or pig’s flesh products is so mind-numbingly cruel, if you eat them regularly, you’ll be uncomfortable just reading this sentence.  But if you have the moral courage, read this blog all about it (it contains no slaughterhouse photos or video): https://treespiritproject.com/cattle-ranching/holocaust-comparison/