This Will Piss You Off!

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, the USDA dropped the official definition of grass-fed. Technically, all cows are grass-fed until the last 3 to 6 months of their lives, when they’re typically fattened with grains. However, despite misleading food labels, over 99% of beef in the store is not truly grass-fed.

Cows are fed grains to quickly fatten them up, but these aren’t “healthy” grains like many people assume. Cows in feedlots are fed DDGS (dried distillers grain with solubles), a cheap waste product of GMO, inedible dent corn used for making ethanol. This is incredibly profitable because it causes the cows to gain weight quickly for very little cost.

Fiber, limestone, and synthetic vitamins and minerals are added to this corn byproduct. Monensin, an antibiotic, is also added. Antibiotics are regularly used in feedlots in the U.S. to quickly increase weight gain in animals. Beta-agonists are also used to enhance muscle growth. Some studies have shown that the use of this medication in animals can cause anxiety in the humans who consume them. There are two types of feedlots: open and closed. In closed feedlots, the cows only get 24 square feet of space and around 150 square feet in open feedlots.

For truly grass-fed beef, look for 100% grass-fed. Support small farmers for the healthiest meat and to help put an end to the grass-fed scam!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	Grass-fed beef is the biggest scam on the planet.
0:03.3	It's a complete lie.
0:04.4	What I'm going to share with you is going to piss you off.
0:07.1	Less than 1% of beef sold in the US is truly grass-fed.
0:11.2	This whole idea of grass-fed is just filled with loopholes all over the place.
0:15.0	In 2016, the USDA dropped the official definition of grass-fed.
0:20.1	All of the cows are grass-fed. It's the last three to six
0:23.2	months where they're fed other things like grains and some other ingredients that I had no idea. Over 99%
0:29.9	of all the beef that people are buying is not fully grass fed, despite what it says on the label.
0:35.2	There is a tremendous amount of beef sold to America
0:39.2	from other countries. And with a little bit of processing, like packaging the beef, it now becomes a
0:45.9	product of the U.S. In other words, this country of origin labeling rule was repealed,
0:52.3	which means revoked, for both beef and pork. Here's just another example
0:56.4	of the lack of transparency where, you know, well, at least if it's from America, it's probably
1:00.6	healthier when it's actually not even coming from America. And by the way, as a side note,
1:04.6	did you know that when you eat a burger from a fast food place, the number of cows that that
1:09.8	hamburger comes from literally can be over
1:12.3	a hundred different sources because they have this entire processing plant where they're getting
1:17.1	meat from all over the place. What people need to realize is what we're talking about is a cow that's
1:21.4	very sedentary that is fatty. And the reason why it's tender is because it has barely any collagen.
1:26.8	And without collagen, it's very, very tender. People do like marbled why it's tender is because it has barely any collagen and without collagen
1:27.5	it's very very tender people do like marbled meat that's tender but what they don't want to
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