white cow grazing on grass in the pasture - Lilit Lysa/Shutterstock Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, there's a distinct difference in the flavor of grass-fed and grain-fed beef. Grass-fed beef is ...

With so many unclear beef labels like grass-fed and grass-finished, it can seem like the people selling you beef are trying to confuse you. It's well known that most conventionally produced ...

Prions are not organisms, and don t replicate the way viruses or bacteria do. Unlike any other "infectious" agent, these are proteins that convert neighboring proteins to their own shape. In a brain, ...

This week, NPR's looking at how the food we eat every day affects climate change. We're focusing on solutions that cover everything from how we grow food to how we eat it. So let's talk about beef.

A pig or chicken spends its life-consuming feed concentrates while most beef is raised on grass to a weight of 750 pounds prior to entering the feedyard. The average slaughter weight of a steer is ...