What are the benefits of Buffalo Meat? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this alternative red meat?
Buffalo burgers are making in-roads in fashionable restaurants. Here’s the deal: Buffaloes — generally the meat is lower in fat than farm-raised steer, but there’s a little bit of a gimmick here. This is not the buffalo of the American plains Indians. This is not the buffalo that grazed on grass and was a source of protein and fat and sustenance for the American Indians. The buffalo industry is one where I think they are partially grass-fed. I do think they graze, but I also think it’s permissible to feed them cornmeal and various other types of feeds, just like they feed cows. I have a saying coined on this program: “It’s not ‘you are what you eat’, but you are what you eat eats.” And although there’s a romanticism about eating buffalo or bison, you’re not getting Paleolithic meat like our stone-age ancestors consumed. It’s probably preferable to conventional beef but it’s not 100 percent. Tonight, I consumed hamburgers that are from a company called Grassfed Beef and the idea here i
