{"id":208965,"date":"2025-03-17T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/eat-grass-fed-beef-help-the-planet-research-says-not-so-simple"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:18:52","slug":"eat-grass-fed-beef-help-the-planet-research-says-not-so-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/eat-grass-fed-beef-help-the-planet-research-says-not-so-simple","title":{"rendered":"Eat grass-fed beef, help the planet? Research says not so simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eat-grass-fed-beef-help-the-planet-research-says-not-so-simple2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For cattle fattened in fields instead of feedlots, the grass may be greener, but the carbon emissions are not.<\/p>\n<p>A study out Monday in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon emissions<\/a> than industrial beef. The finding calls into question the frequent promotion of grass-fed beef as a more environmentally friendly option. Still, other scientists say grass-fed beef wins out on other factors like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/animal+welfare\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animal welfare<\/a> or local environmental pollution, complicating the choice for conscientious consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there is a large portion of the population who really do wish their purchasing decisions will reflect their values,\u201d said Gidon Eshel, a research professor of environmental physics at Bard College and one of the study\u2019s authors. \u201cBut they are being misled, essentially, by the wrong information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For cattle fattened in fields instead of feedlots, the grass may be greener, but the carbon emissions are not. A study out Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions than industrial beef. The finding calls into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208965","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}