Grass-fed versus grain-fed beef starts in the digestive system of a rumen, an animal. A rumen is an organ that is used to ferment grass that creates bacteria that the animal can then extract in their intestines. When you feed an animal grain, it not only gives them a food source that they can't extract this nutrition from, it raises the acidity of this rumen. Raising the acidity of the rumen creates acid-resistant bacteria and then they have to give the animal antibiotics. This is effectively why you can get sick from eating meat. The type of salmonella and E. coli that occurs in these antibiotic-resistant animals is drastically different than the type of salmonella or E. coli on your local farm. Not only are these animals sick, their metabolism is getting ruined, these animals can develop cancer, and different animals are effective in different ways. A cow or a chicken absorbs nutrients differently, so the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio in the fat of these animals is going to be drastically worse than a cow. This is why a lot of people on the carnivore diet feel better eating beef because of the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio in the beef. Then those same people will say, oh, well, you shouldn't eat grass-fed meat. What you're essentially doing by going from grain-fed to grass-fed is what you're doing by going from eating chicken or pork to grain-fed beef. It doesn't really make a lot of sense in that context. Grass-fed beef is far more nutritious and has a better fatty acid profile than grain-fed meat.  In regards to omega-fatty acids, arachidonic acid, a prostaglandin, which is an inflammatory mediator, is used in a lot of biological processes, and that is higher in grass-fed meat. Grain-fed meat is also lower in omega-6 fatty acids. It can also be as much as 10 times higher in the omega-3 alphanenolenic and EPA fatty acids. DPA and DHA are about 4 times higher, and omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in grass-fed is usually somewhere between 1 and 2, like 1.4 to 1.8, whereas grain-fed is between 8 and 13. The combination of the slightly lower omega-6 content of grass-fed beef and drastically higher omega-3 content makes the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio in this food something that is closer to what we would have consumed in our ancestors. Conjugated linoleic acid, the form of linoleic acid that occurs in beef, can be as much as 5 to 10 times higher. It is proven to have various health benefits, and there are actually 28 different types of CLA that all have different biological mechanisms. It has been shown to alleviate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in rats, it improves overall metabolism, its anti-cancer, obesity, diabetic, hypertensive, meaning it prevents lifestyle diseases, and as you can imagine, these metabolic benefits lead to modest weight loss. The carotene, the plant form of vitamin A, as well as the retinol, the animal form of vitamin A, content of the meat, can also be 5 to 10 times higher. Vitamin E is typically 3 to 5 times higher in grass-fed meat, and there is a lack of data on things like vitamin C, vitamin K2, vitamin D3 in meat, but we can assume they are all several times higher in the grass-fed meat, and this is so important. When you consume grain-fed meat with the altered omega-6 ratio, causing more inflammation, you're creating possible oxidative stress, grass-fed meat has more of the vitamins that reduce oxidative stress, so it's a compounding factor. Not only does grass-fed meat have a better omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, it also has more vitamins, therefore anti-oxidants in the body. Now if you only wanted to eat grain-fed meat, could you supplement some anti-oxidants, because you focus on certain foods that have better omega-3 ratios like wild-squad fish, I would personally only eat mackerel or herring, very cheap wild-squad fish if I was on a super tight budget, but what we're going to do now is taste and look at grain-fed versus grass-fed, ribeye and fat, go over the differences, and explain why some people prefer the taste of grain-fed meat. One thing you will notice is the color of this meat. This is an indication of the vitamin and mineral content of the meat and how the animal was raised. If you guys want to go down in the comments and look at the studies I'm providing, you will notice that sometimes, even if an animal is on grass, the nutrient content isn't that much higher. So if the animal isn't getting high quality pasture, then the nutrient content will suffer. Beef, slaughtered in the summer, is going to have darker yellow or fat and have a higher vitamin content than beef slaughtered in the winter. So this obviously grain-fed on the left is from a local supermarket. The grass-fed on the right is both from a local farm, no antibiotics naturally raised. The first thing you'll notice is, wow, this ribeye is huge. And even if you can say, okay, well, there's a little more here and they trimmed a little more of this off, it's still huge. It shows how much larger the animal was because of the antibiotics, the grain they're feeding it. It's super fuel. You'll notice in the fat, there's the carotene color, there's the yellowness, the flesh of the meat is much darker in the grass-fed animal, indicating possibly a higher mineral content. The fat in this grass-fed animal, it's not the best quality, off-white beige. But you'll notice the fat in the grain-fed animal is this stark white color.   It goes down. If you hit this grain-fed fat, it's like a rock. It's gristle.  Now this is actually a darker grain-fed steak. I'm sure you guys have seen pink meat in the supermarket. It's completely crazy. Pork is supposed to be like this color, too, but the pork we have is almost white. And the chicken we eat should be much darker, too, because we're feeding these animals such poor quality stuff. This people prepared their food in every single way. Raw, cooked, fermented, steamed, fried, grilled, you name it, they did it. They did always eat some form of raw food. And if you shot a deer and you decided to cut open that deer and taste it every part of the animal, different foods would have different palatability. In the case of muscle meat, compared to something like marrow fat or fat, in the context of a wild animal, doesn't taste too good. The organs, the fat, taste much better than the muscle meat. But in the context of our modern system, this ribeye does not occur in wild animals.  This is a result of breeding animals.  So it's definitely unnatural. And the reason people like grain-fed over grass-fed is because they're cooking it. Raw grain-fed steak will always taste worse.  And grain-fed fat always tastes worse in general. So we're going to taste this side-by-side as much as you guys don't like to think I am objective. I am. And I will be completely honest and transparent with this. So first, we're going to taste the fat on the grain-fed ribeye. It has like a mild beef flavor with some type of chemical I can't distinguish. Like plastic or chlorine. No, it's almost like ethanol. It's like corny flavored. So now I'm going to try the grain-fed beef fat. And guys, this does not look good. It does not look good. I bought some grain-fed beef fat last week as a trial run. And this smells much better than that one did. It's not that bad. So the part of the animal that they took this grain-fed beef fat from is actually not too bad of a quality. But it definitely has an off-plasticy flavor to it. Let's try another piece of it. Okay, so I can't even cut this. It just has like an off-corn taste. It's mild in flavor. But no one should be eating this grain-fed beef fat. But the grain-fed beef fat on that ribeye steak is definitely way worse than the other one. So now I'm going to try the fat on the grass-fed ribeye. The difference in flavor is astonishing. When I eat that grain-fed beef fat, I don't really taste much. Hard, plasticky, tiny bit of corn flavor, some sort of chemical. That grass-fed beef fat, you taste the grass. You taste the nuttiness. It's rich. It's soft. It's such a contrast. It's amazing. So let's try the beef fat. What the- oh my god. This tastes like nut- the flavor notes are nutty. Reminds me of sweet stuff. It's rich. It's so, so tasty in its raw state. It's unbelievable. That grass-fed beef fat I bought for 250 a pound. The grass-fed ribeye was expensive. I don't usually buy grass-fed ribeye though. I usually get cheap cuts. And the ribeye steak was $10 a pound. So if you guys are saying you can't afford this grass-fed beef, then, you know, try to do sourcing. I personally kill myself working three jobs to be able to afford my diet. So that's me. But now we're going to cook this up. And you guys will see why people prefer grain-fed meat. MasterChef Frankie Boy is back. And for those of you guys who don't know, I was actually on MasterChef Season 9 first episode. I've worked in New York City restaurants for a while.  So we have the ribeye steak and the grass-fed steak. They're charred very similarly, seasoned with salt in the same way. So I'm going to take a cut from the middle of the ribeye. I'll show you guys the cooking temperature. And the grain-fed ribeye has more marbling throughout the center. So it's likely going to be more tender. And this is the temperature on the grain-fed ribeye. It's very, very rare. It's so tender. And it's like crazy. It falls apart in your mouth. The weird thing is I don't really taste much besides the grill flavor. I don't really taste any meat. When I eat that grain-fed steak, I taste char. I taste salt. And I get some texture. I don't actually taste the beef. So here I have the grass-fed steak. It looks redder, but that's because of the color of the meat. It's about the same temperature. This is still super tender. Sometimes the grass-fed ribeyes can be a little tougher, but this isn't. It's definitely, it's not as tender as the grain-fed ribeye, but it still falls apart in your mouth. So I don't see the point. The flavor is more complex. I actually taste the meat. I taste some minerals. I don't just taste the grill. But here's the thing. All of these are pretty good. Someone might prefer one over the other. But if you had this meat in its raw state, it would be world, world, world of a difference. That's the point I try to make to people. It's definitely important to realize the nutrition is stored in the fat. So if a grain-fed ribeye has more fat and a grass-fed ribeye is very lean, the grain-fed ribeye might actually have more nutrients overall.  Foods like liver, organs, like grain-fed beef liver is lower in vitamins. It's probably more bitter. The reason I didn't do a liver comparison was because there's not as stark of a color and textural difference. It's mostly just the taste. I might do a bone marrow comparison in the future. I just haven't been able to get some really high quality grass-fed bone marrow. Once I do, the grain-fed versus grass-fed bone marrow is a huge, huge, out of all the grass-fed versus grain-fed foods you can try. Fat and bone marrow. Anything that is fat has such a different flavor and taste. I could probably show you guys some butter and cream, but I've compared grass-fed versus grain-fed butter in the past. I've done that, so you guys can look that up on my channel. If you do want to see it again, let me know. 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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report. Agriculture is a big business. More than $1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally every year. But countries may put their own plants at risk when they import fruits, vegetables, wood and other products. As products are unloaded from ships and planes, some unwelcome visitors may find a new home. The stink bug is one example. This pest eats fruit crops. It is believed to have arrived in the United States from China. Other pests include fruit fly eggs or fungal spores. Some well-known threats include wheat rust, African army worms, cassava bacterial blight and the European grapevine moth. The list goes on. To fight the problem, there are new standards under the International Plant Protection Convention. Craig Fedchok is the coordinator of the treaty. He says the purpose of the convention is to develop standards for the trade of plants and plant products. The convention was first approved in 1952. It is recognized as one of the three bodies that set standards for the World Trade Organization. New standards for pest risk analysis were released at the convention's annual meeting in Rome. These give greater guidance for deciding whether an imported plant might be a threat to cultivated or wild plants. Craig Fedchok says changes were also made to standards for wood packaging material. Wood packaging can carry pests like beetles that can harm native forests. Agricultural pests are believed to cause billions of dollars in damage each year. Finding an estimate is difficult. Countries may not want their trading partners to know the full extent of the problem. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Spillareo.


Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. This is a special day for me, man. God just keep dropping gyms on me, man. And to be honest with you, man, you never know. You never know what God is doing, man. He always got something to worry. He got something held back the way. He can show you, OK, I did this for you. You didn't even see it. Man, so I met this guy, man, years ago. Seven years ago or so, man. He came to my shop. He was like, man, I'm doing a site for a man. I'm putting my artist in, man. We trying to get it going, man. And he was so passionate about it. And I didn't know really. And they say it. I didn't even know his name. I just wanted to work with him. I didn't care. Say, man, we got that boy, Prophecy, in the building. Hey, what's up? How you doing, man? Man, this dude here, man. He usually don't get in front of the camera. You notice I've been getting people in front of the camera that usually don't. But most videographers or photographers don't ever get in front of the camera. They love being behind the scenes. Behind the scenes. But creative work, creative work. That's what. And this guy, man. So what drives you to work like this, man? What drives me to work?  You know what I mean? Ever since I was young, like, to be honest, that's what drives me, because I see them like, they used to wake us up at five in the morning to go to work. Yeah, because they had to be at work at six. And then they had to drive me to somebody's house. And then they had to drive me to school. And then they had to drive back home. And they had to wait till like 7, 8 o'clock till my parents got home. And then they were tired. Yeah.  All over again. Man. I told them, I don't want my kids living like that. Wow. You don't change the game. But it builds something. It builds character, right?  And you know, we try to not do that for our kids, but it made you into the man you are. You wouldn't want to change that for nothing. And sometimes we tend to not want to, we want to give our kids an easier life. But sometimes that can make them soft. Definitely not. Of course, not make my kids work. Because you know, I want them to see me work. Like that will motivate, my dad worked all the time. So he still works all the time. Even when he's not working, he's doing something. He's moving around. Yeah, he just doesn't sit down. He's just, I was like, if I, people think that I'm the hardest worker. But I looked at my dad and he doesn't stop. I'm like, I don't ever feel like I could outwork him. How do you ever told him that, though? Yeah, I told him that. My dad. That's what I'm saying. My dad, like in just recently, just recently over the past like two, three years, I've started to realize I've become a father. And I started telling my dad, I was like, you know, you inspire me, like, that's it. It's something else. It's something else, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That is so crazy, because I did the same thing to him. No, same way, same thing to me. I did the same thing to my mom. Whenever I got married and I had kids, and I was like, oh my God, how you balance all of this? I call her and I was like, Mom, I don't know how you did it.  Because to me, I'm like, until you're put in that position, until you have kids, until you have a mate, you know, you don't realize how much energy it takes to be able to balance time for everybody, you know, and then find time for yourself. So I told her, I was like, no, you did an awesome job. Yeah, man. So, amen, when you first started out, so seven years ago when you came here, how long had you been doing that before you came here? Probably like two years. Two years. Yeah. And did you know where you was going with it, or you just kind of was just doing what you loved? Yeah, I love music. I love putting artists on. You know, like at the time, there wasn't a lot of videographers. And especially nobody was trying to put any artist on. You know what I mean? So I took it upon myself and I started creating these ciphers. That was around the time where it was a big budget for a video that was coming out of that time. You know, like when the majors would do a good video and you had already mastered the concept of understanding DSRs back then. Yeah, I was all right, man. Like I said, I wasn't looking back at my videos and I wasn't the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was doing something for the people around me, for the artists around me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And that's kind of what motivated me at the same time. There were, you know what I mean? Like those I was doing for free, but you know, they were paying me to do videos. It was like maybe $200, $300. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the time it wasn't a lot. No, no. But it got to a point where I was doing so many of them. I was getting paid more than what I was getting paid out of the job. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy, man. I sit back and I just, like I said, when I seen it was you. I started looking through all of it. When I seen, like wasn't in Kevin Gates, Moe 3, different people, who would you say the biggest artist you work with in your eyes? Cause that would be your opinion, really. The biggest artist I've worked with? I mean, to be honest, I feel like Moe 3 was bigger than everybody. Well, he was gonna be bigger than everybody, yeah. You think he had it in him? Yeah, he had it in him to be, you know, like top five in the nation. Yeah, yeah. I mean, not just here in Dallas, but you know, he was just so diverse. You know what I mean? That's what I felt, and I felt it from day one. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.


Sudan's premier has warned of deeply warring fractures within the country's security forces and called for reconciliation between civilian and military political factions. Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk made the comments as he announced an initiative to unify the factions guiding Sudan through a fragile transition following the April 2019 ouster of dictator Omar al-Bashir. Sudan has been led by a civilian military ruling administration since the sides reached a power-sharing deal rather the following August. He pointed to splits among pro-democracy activists who led the December 2018 protest against Bashir adding that fragmentation within the military was also a deeply warring issue. Hamduk said his initiative aimed to push for reforms to the military and ensure that armed groups including the powerful paramilitary rapid support forces, RSF, be integrated into the armed forces. Sudanese media have repeatedly called for carried reports rather of tensions between the RSF and the Sudanese armed forces over the integration. Last year Hamduk's government signed a landmark peace deal with rebel groups to end conflicts in several of the country's border regions. Only two key groups refused to sign the deal. Last week there were talks adjoined between Sudan and the powerful rebel faction of Sudan's People's Liberation Movement north led by Abdullah Zizi al-Hilu.