{"id":2154,"date":"2015-02-24T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T04:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2015-02-24T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T04:09:48","slug":"is-grass-fed-beef-better-for-the-planet-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/02\/is-grass-fed-beef-better-for-the-planet-its-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Is grass-fed beef better for the planet?  It&#8217;s complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> posted an article yesterday discussing grass-fed beef and how production methods affect the balance of greenhouse gases like methane. \u00a0Since cows produce methane as part of the digestion process, and methane can increase global warming by absorbing infrared radiation being given off from the Earth, this is an important question. \u00a0But it is complicated by the fact that grain-finished beef gain weight faster than grass-finished beef, well managed pastures sequester more carbon in the ground and the plants than poorly managed pastures, and many other factors. \u00a0The calculations for which is better for food, for the animals themselves, and for the planet as a whole are a lot more complicated than just monitoring methane production. \u00a0You can read the full article discussing the pluses and minuses\u00a0<a title=\"Wash Post article on grass-fed beef\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/is-grass-fed-beef-really-better-for-you-the-animal-and-the-planet\/2015\/02\/23\/92733524-b6d1-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/angus-cattle-ars-k4148-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1163\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/angus-cattle-ars-k4148-10-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Source: ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/angus-cattle-ars-k4148-10-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/angus-cattle-ars-k4148-10-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/angus-cattle-ars-k4148-10.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post posted an article yesterday discussing grass-fed beef and how production methods affect the balance of greenhouse gases like methane. \u00a0Since cows produce methane as part of the digestion process, and methane can increase global warming by absorbing infrared radiation being given off from the Earth, this is an important question. \u00a0But it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-livestock","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}