{"id":140339,"date":"2022-06-09T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beefalo-a-bison-cattle-hybrid-is-being-touted-as-the-healthy-meat-of-the-future"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:23:16","slug":"beefalo-a-bison-cattle-hybrid-is-being-touted-as-the-healthy-meat-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beefalo-a-bison-cattle-hybrid-is-being-touted-as-the-healthy-meat-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Beefalo, a bison-cattle hybrid, is being touted as the healthy meat of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beefalo-a-bison-cattle-hybrid-is-being-touted-as-the-healthy-meat-of-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that Thier should be more animals raised for meat.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But beefalo does have its opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just don\u2019t think there should be beefalo,\u201d said Martha McFarland, farmland viability coordinator for the advocacy group Practical Farmers of Iowa. She also raises cattle and bison, but said she would never mix the two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature did just fine producing bison. It\u2019s an excellent animal that also is good to eat, and mixing it with cows is not necessary and weakens the genetic line of the bison.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that Thier should be more animals raised for meat. But beefalo does have its opponents. \u201cWe just don\u2019t think there should be beefalo,\u201d said Martha McFarland, farmland viability coordinator for the advocacy group Practical Farmers of Iowa. She also raises cattle and bison, but said she would never mix the two. \u201cNature did just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}