Bison Benefits
Most Americans, especially us midwesterners have an inborn fondness for red meat. Whether it be hamburgers, roasts, ribeye or steaks it’s always an appetizing meal. We just can’t help ourselves, we were raised on the stuff and even though it isn't the healthiest it’s still a staple in our diets. But, doctors all seem to agree excessive amounts of Beef just aren’t good for our hearts. Change is hard and we don’t want to give up on our wholesome meals so why not try the healthy alternative, Bison?
I’m a huge advocate for the consumption of Bison and the health benefits of the meat for one main reason; my family not only eats it on a regular basis we also raise them. We started our herd when I was around 9 years old with only
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Artificial shelters are not needed since they prefer to be outdoors no matter the weather. They aren’t too picky and eat most U.S. weeds so efficient feed utilization is another plus of these animals. Calving almost never requires human help (we never have had to pull a calf yet) and it has been observed that Bison never calve during storms. Their immune systems are incredible. The American Bison are extremely hardy animals who hardly ever get ill which means lower vet bills and visits than the cattle industry. Bison have long productive lives. They live around 15 years in the wild; 25 years in captivity and starting when they are two years old will have a calf every year if the conditions are right.
Don’t get me wrong there are some disadvantages and challenges to raising these giant creatures. There is a saying “You can get a Bison to go anywhere it wants to go.” Most Bison ranchers seem to agree that these animals are extremely head strong. Another thing that isn’t the greatest about Bison is that they get extremely antsy and nervous in smaller pens. They are free range and do not like being confined in close quarters. Because of this ranchers are required to stay calm and quiet when working with and sorting them. But my family as well as many others definitely think that the rewards outway the
When people started to see the declining of wildlife animals include bison and many colorful birds; it cause a rise of conservation. A cause of the extermination of bison is “From the Great Slave Lake to the Rio Grande, the home of the buffalo was everywhere overrun by the man with a gun; and, as had ever been the case, the wild creatures were gradually swept away, the largest and most conspicuous forms being the first to go.”(Doc.2) And the new information about the number of beautiful birds used to furnish women’s hats caused further conservation movement. “It if high time for the whole civilized world to know that many of the most beautiful and remarkable birds of the world are now being exterminated to furnish millinery ornaments for womenswear. The mass of the new information that we have recently secured on this
I will first show the lack of validity and soundness to Howard’s claim that A) a vegan lifestyle is a healthier choice and B) his claim that one must switch to that lifestyle to enjoy these said benefits. To the claim made in A, Howard uses his own health problems he endured on his meat diet, and uses it as a constant variable comparing it to his now relative healthy lifestyle as a vegan. On first glance anyone who eats a calorie-laden, unbalanced diet and ends up weighing 300 pounds, as Lyman himself admitted, will have health problems regardless of his orientation to meat or vegetables. With this said his comparing analogy is inertly flawed and must be disregarded from the argument he presents. On march 8 before the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Mary K Young, MS.,R.D,NCBA Director of Nutrition Research and Information, presented the benefits of eating meat. Using Data from the 1995 USDA Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSI) she confirms that red meat enhances one overall diet quality. Young goes on to point out that red meat is the number one source for protein, B12, and zinc, number 2 source for B6 and third greatest source for iron, niacin and potassium. She also pointed out that red meat alone has the greatest concentrates of iron and zinc together. Also included cited in Young’s report was the research recently published in the Journal of the American...
Deer have been roaming planet Earth for over three million years, and man has been consuming the meat of these animals since the beginning of human existence. When human beings were hunters and gatherers, wild animals were on the menu. Society has changed so drastically over centuries to where many people view hunting and the consumption of wild animals such as deer a wrong thing to do. Venison is a high quality meat that not many people have tried or would think to have in their daily diet. There are many facts and benefits that society can appreciate about the consuming of deer as an everyday protein in people’s diets.
Did you know that a cow harvested specifically for beef only lives up to 18 months? The average cow usually lives up to 18-25 years! Today I will talk to you about the cruelty and chemicals that goes into the beef you are buying from your local grocery store. Not that I am in any way a vegetarian or against eating meat, but it is important for you to be informed about what goes into the food that you are putting into your body. You only have one, after all.
The next time you go to sit down and enjoy a nice juicy steak, take a moment to think about how that piece of meat came from a cow and became your rib eye steak. Many people in our nation have no idea where their food comes from, what exactly is in the food they consume, and the effects it has on their health and the health of our environment. This is largely due to the industrialized, factory farming way of producing our meat and poultry. It has left our bodies sickened and our earth battered but with an elimination of animal products and an addition of a more plant based diet we can begin to restore …..
Although feeding corn to cattle speeds up the process until they reach slaughter time, evidence shows that feeding corn to cattle that are genetically wired to eat grass produces unhealthy beef which then plays a role in healthy people, minimizing the longevity in Americans. Furthermore, the logic of nature relies on complex mutual relationship where each animal contributes to the sustainability of their environment in a cyclic manner as stated in the chapter “All Flesh is Grass”:
Throughout the book Black Elk Speaks, the bison is very important to the people of the Sioux tribe. The bison provided food, shelter, and clothing to the people so when the whites would kill the bison just to kill, it took all of that away from them. “I can remember when the bison were so many that they could not be counted,
Roughly over 20% of 121,000 middle-aged men and women died over a period of 28 years during a study of red meat effects on the body (Harding). Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, and veal are all red meats. While these meats are rich in vitamins and protein, they can lose much of their benefits through cooking and processing. Limiting how much red meat an individual eats could add years to their life by avoiding heart disease, certain cancers, and diabetes. By simply replacing one meal weekly, that consists of red meat, for a meal that is poultry, fish, nuts, or vegetable based could reduce the risk of dying in middle aged years by 7 to 9% (Harding).
Today’s medical experts say that avoiding meat helps you avoid saturated fat. They have found out from studies that women who eat meat daily have a fifty percent greater risk of developing heart disease than vegetarian women and a sixty-eight percent greater risk in men (staff writer). People may not know about serious diseases meat can cause such as, mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease. In the September 1999 issue of the Emerging Infectious Diseases, approximately 76 million food-borne illnesses- resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths occur in the United States each year from improperly cooked or diseased meat (Licher). That is a lot of fun!
In fact, the amount of resources that go into production of animals for consumption is somewhat startling. When factoring in transportation, grains for feeding, etc. and directly comparing them to the output of protein for consumption, a vegetarian diet seems much more appealing. David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist specializing in Agriculture and Life Science, stated beef production “requires a [fossil-fuel] energy output to protein output ratio of 54:1” and that 100,000 liters of water goes into just one kilogram of beef. Also, cows are notorious for producing large amounts of methane, totaling 500 liters per cow per day (Goffman 3). Methane traps heat in the environment, heating the surface of the earth causing problematic situations to occur all over the earth, including the ice caps melting and eliminating species. And when cattle, which are...
An abundance of Americans have no idea that most of the food that they consume are either processed or altered in one way or another. “Almost all beef cattle entering feedlots in the United States are given hormone implants to promote faster growth. The first product used for this purpose is DES (diethylstilbestrol) it was approved for use in beef cattle in 1954. An estimated two-thirds of the nation's beef cattle were treated with DES in 1956. (Swan, Liu, Overstreet, Brazil, and Skakkebaek)” Many people enjoy the various meats that comes from a cow, but that would probably change if the consumers knew that cattle is one of the most processed meat source in the market today because of the synthetic hormones that the cows are given. “ The three synthetic hormones are the estrogen compound zeranol, the androgen trenbolone acetate, and progestin melengestrol acetate. (Swan, Liu, Overstreet, B...
Meat is a coroner stone to the majority of American’s diets. I would venture to say the majority of American’s eat meat for their three meals a day. Eating meat isn’t all bad, it actually brings a good source of protein to one’s diet, in a moderate amount. In 2012 a study was done and found that the U.S. total meat consumption was 52.1 billion pounds. That comes out to be 270.7 pounds per person. We still eat more meat than just about any other country, besides Luxembourg (A Nation of Meat Eaters). Eating red meat is bad for humans because of the negative health effects, the environmental issues it causes, and the inhumane treatment of the animals.
Envision yourself in an animal cage for the rest of your life. With no escape and no way of seeing your loved ones. There are better methods for education and conservation than keeping animals locked up in zoos away from their natural habitat. Visitors may learn more by watching a documentary or going to museums instead. Plus, if people want to see animals in person, they can travel the world and see the animals in their natural environment instead of going to man-made habitats. This is wrong because most animals are prisoners in their own cages, and they don't get to run free in the wild or eat as they like, therefore their food chain changes. However, animals may experience psychological trauma when they are separated from family members and locked away in isolation. Also, removing animals from the wild puts their entire species at risk for extinction.
Over the past 4,000 years zoos have significantly improved. The old cement cages and steel-bar enclosures have been removed. When going to zoos now-a-days you will notice a much more natural-looking environment with barriers that resemble ditches which separate animals from people. The animals are kept in mini-habitats that have the same qualities and appearance as their natural habitat. Another positive thing about...
There are strict regulations required to raise certified organic meat. The USDA defines “natural” meat as: “All meats raised for human consumption without additives and minimally processed” (Topline Foods, 2014). According to USDA regulations, any meat can be labeled “natural” if it contains no artificial flavoring, coloring, preservative or any other artificial ingredients. This means that producers raising natural meats may choose to eliminate the use of steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics from their animals. They may also be producing their animals in conventional feedlot situations full of steroids, hormones, antibiotics and GMO feeds. It’s all about the processing (USDA Organic,