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France doesn't use feedlots? In the US, half of the meat weight is added to cattle in feedlots, using 1/2 of US corn production.


No European country does really. Nor do Australia and New Zealand to my knowledge. That’s why the beef tastes so much better. Cattle that are grass fed taste very different.


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French beef and dairy-cattle-finally-eaten-as-beef eat 2/3 grass.


Yes. You asked about feedlots. Europe pretty much doesn’t have them, as I said. Note that beef cattle are 80% grass fed according to the document. Dairy that are eventually eaten eat less grass, 2/3.


I was talking about more than feedlots, I was talking about grass-fed cattle vs. not grass-fed cattle. Do you really think it matters if a cow eats grain in a "feedlot" instead of on a "farm"? I sure don't.


The document you linked has 38.3% of "grazed grass" and 26.3% of "conserved grass". That's 64.6% of grass.


That's why I said:

> French beef and dairy-cattle-finally-eaten-as-beef eat 2/3 grass.




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