So if you buy pricey organic beef, it comes from cattle that spent their lives on pasture, rather than crowding into a feedlot, right?

April 19, 2010

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Organic Beef From a Feedlot?

So if you buy pricey organic beef, it comes from cattle that spent their lives on pasture, rather than crowding into a feedlot, right? Not necessarily.

Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Organic Program recently laid out strict rules on feed and pasturing time for organic milk cows, officials are currently considering a proposal to allow some feedlot confinement for organic beef cattle. For example, they could be put in a feedlot for the last four months of their lives and fed grain.

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