A new study out Monday finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef is no less carbon-intensive than ...

In fact, they found that per kilogram of beef, pasture-raised cattle are generally more carbon-intensive than cows raised in ...

eating grasses. At this point, they're all essentially grass-fed. Conventional grain-finished cattle are then moved from the pasture to feedlots for the last few months before slaughter ...

Cows eat grass which is very difficult to digest ... any undigested food and nutrients are treated as waste, which goes all the way throughthe cow and comes out as poo. What may be waste to ...

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 ...

Schmitt said maybe if beef was scaled back on a large enough scale and if farmers could free up more cropland for other foods that humans eat, the localized environmental benefits of grass-fed cattle ...

then simulated many herds of industrial and grass-fed cattle. It compared differences in how much food they would eat, how much methane and carbon dioxide they would emit and how much meat they ...