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The meat that we eat in this day and age is produced in a feed lot. It's grain-fed meat, and we produce a characteristically obese animal, animals whose muscle tissue looks more like fat tissue than it does lean meat in wild animals. And if you look at a T-bone steak from a grain-fed cow, it may have as much as 9 grams of saturated fat. Whereas a comparable steak from a grass-fed animal would have 1.3 grams of saturated fat
The meat that we eat in this day and age is produced in a feed lot. It's grain-fed meat, and we produce a characteristically obese animal, animals whose muscle tissue looks more like fat tissue than it does lean meat in wild animals. And if you look at a T-bone steak from a grain-fed cow, it may have as much as 9 grams of saturated fat. Whereas a comparable steak from a grass-fed animal would have 1.3 grams of saturated fat
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LOREN The meat that we eat in this day and
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age is produced in a feedlot
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It's grain fed meat
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And we produce a
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characteristically obese animal
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Um an animal who's muscle tissue looks more like fat
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tissue than it does lean meat in wild animals
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And if you look at a T bone steak from a grain fed cow it
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may have as much as 9 grams of saturated fat whereas a
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comparable streak from a grass fed animal would have
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1 3 grams of saturated fat
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King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the he...
