Is Grass Better Than Grain-Finished Beef? It's Complicated

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Is Grass Better Than Grain-Finished Beef? It's Complicated By Maria Scinto Aug. 24, 2025 8:00 pm EST

You'll often see restaurants ( fast food burger chains included) boasting grass-fed beef. Food bloggers, too, try to convince people their beef recipes 'deserve' to be made with this pricier option. All this begs the question: Is grass-fed beef really superior to beef fed on grain? K.C. Gulbro, who owns the Illinois restaurant FoxFire Steakhouse , told The Takeout this isn't necessarily so. In fact, in his experience, it isn't even the fancier of the two options. "My dad was a poor dairy farmer," Gulbro told The Takeout. "So poor they only had one milk cow. Grass-fed beef to him was a poor man's dinner as he had to eat it many times growing up."

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