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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: In Defense of Beef
Description: Nicolette Hahn Niman, Author, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Beef
America’s beef industry has many enemies and few friends.Â
The enemies-of-beef camp includes the environmentalists who claim that the cow destroys the earth by trampling it beneath its hooves, and forces the climate to change by emitting its greenhouse gases. Â
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The camp also includes nutritionists who claim that eating the saturated fat of beef makes people fat and sick.  And vegans, vegetarians and animal rights activists who believe all farm animals should either be treated...