BEEF TRIALS
February 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
GRAZING cattle beef is leaner and more tender than their feed-lot counterparts, with half the saturated fat and higher levels of the more healthy types of fat, according to preliminary American research. The US Agriculture Research Service is conducting a study that will help eventually market to natural food market niches the mostly grass-fed cattle of the Appalachian mountain range in the American South. For the last two years, a new herd of 72 Black Angus cattle have been taking part in the study, where half are free to eat grass in the field, ...
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