Thesis: Grass-fed and grain-fed beef has drawn a line in the sand not only with consumers but also with producers. For many years in America, grain-fed beef has been the status quo when it comes to producing high quantities of beef for the world’s growing population. Although, with research being done on grass-fed and grain-fed beef, many researchers are tending to lean towards grass-fed beef being the best option for both consumers and producers. With grass-fed beef producers are able to conserve their land more and give the consumers a more natural meat. So this leads many Americans to ask the question of, what is really the best option, grass-fed or grain-fed? Although many American producers think that grain-fed beef is still the best option, …show more content…
There are two specific audiences that would bring an objection to this topic. These audiences are, producers who raise cattle by strictly grain and the feed industry who provide feed to these grain-fed producers. Producers who still raise their cattle off of grain, may not be willing or wanting to change the ways of growing their cattle. This arises an issue when it comes to advancing producers practices because the way these producers may run their operation was the way their father or grandfather ran the same operation. So, if it worked for other generations then they become skeptical to changing. Many people in the cattle industry could see the grass-fed operations as something that is not achievable when growing cattle and receiving good quality meat. A drastic change such as a grain-fed operation to a grass-fed operation could be a scary process producers do not want to take because of the risks involved. The feed producers who grow grain and provide this product to grain-fed producers, could potentially be at risk with their line of work if more producers switched over to grass-fed beef. Not only would these types of business who sell grain, would be losing customers but also could potentially lose their revenue. Although, these two audiences present two good arguments when being against grain-fed producers but there are many more positive aspects than there is negative aspects of