How much beef do you eat a week?

[IChing]

Even if you eat less than a family member try to give an average in consideration of your answer
I eat less than a half pound including burgers, hot dogs etc.

For example, you buy 2lbs of beef for your family of 4
the answer would be .5

[bryant69]

1. Please don't ask about Chicken.

There's no need to bring up Chicken.

Bryant
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[JacquesMolay]

2. 3+ years beef-free.

It is a destructive, wasteful and immoral practice.

[5X]

5. Agreed, that is why I don't eat it, the farming practices and....

the hormones, antibiotics, etc.

[Warpy]

18. I eat it a couple of times a year

but since I eat it so seldom, I can justify the expense of grass fed, organically raised beef. It's nothing you can throw on a grill and expect to cut with the side of a fork, though.

Chicken is the same, couple of times a year, free range and organicaly raised.

[kestrel91316]

22. Yeah. What Warpy said. However...........

I had some grass-fed tenderloin last Christmas that was like butter. Best piece of beef I've ever had - a positively orgasmic experience (my BIL is a great cook).

[Throd]

30. You forgot tasty

[KurtNYC]

42. are you describing war or beef?

"destructive, wasteful and immoral practice"

[JacquesMolay]

49. Awwwww, isn't he cute?

That's beef, little fella. That was the topic. I tell you what, sport, why don't you look around for some of the facts before you get all snide. Here are some actual facts supporting my views. I hope that doesn't hurt your little head, tiger. Now pay attention: did you know that small farmers in Central America and South America have been driven off their land to make way for big beef ranches? That's the destructive part. Did you know that getting our calories from beef requires the use of gasoline at a rate of a gallon per pound? That beef ranching increases soil erosion? Those are the wasteful parts, punkin'. How about some of the practices in the beef industry - didja know that many of the animals are given steroids, and have their heads help up with steel rods so they don't eat their shit to get the iron they miss from their feed? See, I just think that's fucked up and immoral, but I'm sure you can snidely dismiss it. Later, bud.

[KurtNYC]

52. over-react much?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html

[EFerrari]

3. I've had exactly one steak in the last year so I said zero

because it's too early to do fractions. :)

[IChing]

4. There is a Math test after the poll

involving fractions and percentages.

[EFerrari]

13. As long as no airplanes turn left in flight.

lol

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I had a cheeseburger yesterday so--

I voted .5 lb , but in an ordinary week I dont eat beef

I probably eat that much in 3-4 months.

[PinkTiger]

7. We are beef farmers.

We have our own beef, raised on the hoof, without all that scary stuff they feed in the feed lots, and our beef are Limousin - very low in fat. My hamburger is about 96 percent lean.

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Beef from well-cared for animals tastes better, period.

We buy from a local rancher who has only Angus cattle and the flavor is rich that a very small portion is filling. Cheap feed lot beef is tasteless in comparison.

[IChing]

21. Do you eat a lot of beef?

One can really taste the difference in the quality that you produce.
How do you market your meats?

[PinkTiger]

47. We are very small.

We don't market our meats. Once a year we sell some calves to help pay for the hay we feed our small herd (we have 7 cows and a bull), and that is about it.
My husband is retired now.

[knitter4democracy]

44. Thank you. That's hard work.

You're doing a good thing--raising good food in a good way for people who want it. :hug:

[TahitiNut]

8. Cow! Yummmmm!

:silly:

[Annces]

35. Yey for human rights

Screw the rest of the living beings.

[TahitiNut]

38. Yup. Pig! Yummmmmm!

:silly:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Every so often I eat beef

but not every week. It is more of a treat than anything else. The best beef to eat is grain fed and raised without hormones. I've read that kosher beef must be raised without hormones to be considered kosher. Is this true?

[IChing]

14. Sometimes I go for weeks without beef

so I voted for the .5 or less. I eat beef sometimes and consider it a treat like you and want quality not quantity.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Two or three lbs, I suppose.

Why?

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Not much

About 1/2 to 1 pound a week, typically a flatiron steak with the occasional hamburger. I eat a lot more poultry and pork (which is pretty lean nowadays, now that lard is rarely farmed.) All in all, I eat maybe 2 pounds of meat a week.

[Merlot]

12. Gave up beef when I was 22

Didn't do it on purpose, just gradually stopped eating it. Started eating less after reading an article in the LA Weekly about how cows are farmed. I was so disgusted by the cruelty and hormones I just lost my appetite for it.

So after 20+ years of not eating beef, I'm still at the same weight as when I was 22, have no additional hormones in my body, and am in really good health. Can I say for certain this is because I don't eat beef? No, but I suspect it plays a big part in it.

If I lived in Argentina or Europe where the beef is raised more naturally I might have continued eating it. But at this point, it's hard to imagine wanting to eat beef. I still eat fish, dairy and eggs. Stopped eating chicken and turkey a couple years after the beef.

[DemGa]

28. Your story sounds very much like mine

I quit beef at 23, now I'm 41. Stayed at perfect weight, feel great. It's worked for me!!

[Lobster Martini]

15. Apart from mixing ground beef into my fox terrier's dinner, none.. (n/t)

[MorningGlow]

16. Usually one hormone-free hamburger per week

Not even half a pound--thinner. Made at home. I can't remember the last time I had a steak--I have no desire for one.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. I shop for grass-fed beef at my town's farmer's market. . .

the beef comes from upstate New York. And as I've switched from conventionally-grown meat to grass-fed, I've found I'm eating less meat overall. Same thing for poultry and other meats - I usually shop at Wild Oats if I can't get them at the farmer's market.

[KansDem]

36. Same here...

I usually shop at Wild Oats...

And even then, I buy only if the beef's on sale.

[Seedersandleechers]

19. I've tried to get my cats to eat it

and they would rather starve then eat it. Maybe they know something that I don't know.

[malaise]

23. I only eat

seafood and poultry -mostly seafood. Haven't eaten red meat since 1979.

[neverforget]

45. I don't eat seafood because of what I saw/smelled in Alaska working on a

fish processing boat 12 years ago. Among other things, it was sensory overload but I'll keep the graphic details to myself.

I feel that if I had worked in a beef processing plant, I wouldn't eat beef either.

[kestrel91316]

24. I don't eat more than 5 lb of beef a year.

There's a crappy chuck steak in the freezer to use up, and then it's going to be exclusively grass-fed from here on out.

I also don't eat large amounts of other animal protein. I am leaning toward only organic chicken and pork, and the prices being what they are, that means it's an occasional treat only. Fish is limited, too, since there are so many types that are not sustainably raised and the others are pricey. Really nice fish here goes for $20/lb.

[Betsy Ross]

25. Hot dogs and hamburgers for July 4th

Then back to our Friday night chicken routine. Beans, grains, dairy, and vegetables the rest of the time. On average, we eat beef once every month or two.

[Deja Q]

26. Zero. How much methane do chickens and pollock fish fart out every day?

(the one on the left just passed gas. Hence the expression of the one on the right...)

[flvegan]

27. None. Some might be in my cat's food, none in my dogs'.

[DutchLiberal]

29. Zero. I'm a vegetarian. n/t

[judaspriestess]

31. None

We eat very vegetarian friendly.

on edit: we eat meat very seldomly now. Chicken still on occasion and I most definitely eat seafood.

My mom is the meat eater in the household. I cannot get her to break her habits. She is very meat and potatoes and Mexican food oriented.

[RebelOne]

32. I don't eat meat, but I do mix ground turkey in my dogs' food. n/t

[MissB]

33. Haven't had beef for years.

[hyphenate]

34. I ate none for 13 years

But now, when I get an insane craving for it, I have a hamburger when I'm out. It's not very often at all, maybe twice a month--if that--and 90% of the time it's for a hamburger. Once, about 2 years ago, I had pot roast, and made one for myself as well, but I won't eat it otherwise.

As someone said, don't talk to me about chicken, because I do eat that and turkey, maybe 4 times a week total. I do like seafood like shrimp and fish (mainly cod, schrod and flounder), but I can't afford it most of the time, so I stick to things like salads, potatoes, beans and rice. And chocolate. It's a food group all its own. :)

[eggman67]

37. 2-3

Though I want some right now thanks to the tallgrassbeef.com banner ad at the top of the page :)

[cboy4]

39. Where's the "how the hell do I know how much beef I eat each

week do you think I weigh all of it answer? ;)

[baby_mouse]

40. 5lb of beef in a week?????!!!

Where on earth would you stuff it all???

I'm slightly amazed. I almost never eat beef. It doesn't even taste very nice.

Bacon for me, and chicken, please. Nice, free range, very expensive but delicious organic chicken.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

41. None in 10 years

Go veggie!

[knitter4democracy]

43. We eat locally raised bison.

Got a freezer full.

[Sapere aude]

46. I became a vegetarian 10 years ago.

[quinnox]

48. It depends

Sometimes I will eat more during a certain week, other weeks not much.

It is too variable for me to guess an average.

[supernova]

50. One or two meals a month

I eat beef.

I'm actually getting to the point, I'd rather save the beef for when I dine out. It's cooked right, and the quality is better in the reastaurant than what I can get in the store.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

51. Say if

a family of 4 go to McDonalds and get a 1/2 pounder each. Thats 2 lbs right there.

[Warren DeMontague]

53. Not me- not for years.

I eat poultry and fish, though.

I have to admit, sometimes it smells pretty good driving past the In-n-Out, but in general I don't miss it at all.