[heather45879]

Unfortunately food is religion to many folks. They will die defending their precious food choices.

The problem with articles like this is that it’s designed to be an echo chamber of denialism.

The key to being healthy is good diet. Good diet means good ingredients. Most animals are treated like crap and fed crap too—save for a few small-scale producers.

If you want to eat meat do yourself (and everyone having to hear these discussions) a favor: visit a high quality Kobe cattle ranch and see how they treat the animals.

Then visit a large-scale farm (tip: you might need top-secret clearance) which provides the majority of beef products to the USA.

Compare the difference…

Garbage in = garbage out.

[km3r]

Is there any research to back up that treating cattle better improves the nutrition of beef?

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

It's well known that cattle kept inside ends up with much lower Vitamin D content in milk & meat.

Not sure about other nutrients.

[WillPostForFood]

There is research to support it. It makes sense as well. If your human diet affects your health/nutrition/body composition, animal diet should affect their health/nutrition/body composition.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14423473.pdf

[gruez]

Not the person you replied to, but I think "animal's diet affects their nutrition" is pretty obvious. For instance, the "omega 3" eggs you see at the supermarket are produced by feeding the chicken a high omega 3 diet. That itself isn't really interesting. The real question is whether going through all that trouble is worth it. In other words, is it better/more cost effective to buy the higher quality animal products at the supermarket (eg. omega 3 eggs) or buy the regular stuff and pop a multivitamin? For omega 3 eggs at least, the answer is the latter. I'd be interested in seeing how it works out for beef.

[algoatecorn]

There are some measurable differences in certain vitamins, fat content,and amino acid profiles, but I do not believe the differences have a causal link to overall human health i.e. longer lifespan, improved health markers, etc. At least nothing significant in the literature.