Grass-fed beef: the most ‘vegan’ food in the supermarket

We all know that we don’t live in a black-and-white world, yet we often present certain issues in an over-simplified way. However, if we don’t take a holistic stance on topics, we risk creating misguided paradigms that do more harm than good. One such example is the vegan diet, which we generally deem both morally superior and more sustainable compared to a diet with meat.
But are we necessarily doing the environment a favor by switching to a vegan diet? What if these plant foods come from monoculture crops that destroy biodiversity and cause excessive soil erosion? Would a better option be to switch to grass-fed beef in that case?
Here’s a thought-provoking article, which brings a nuanced perspective to the whole debate:
Sadly, in the practice of agriculture it is impossible to not cause endless suffering to many living creatures. One could argue that the most suffering of all is caused by annual agriculture, the cultivation of vegetables, including grains, beans, and rice, that only take one year to grow from seed to food. We displace countless wild animals from their homes and lands when we cultivate annual crops. Not only that, we also kill thousands of creatures when we till the soil.
A perennial agriculture, on the other hand, based on trees, shrubs, and livestock, allows nature to thrive.
Medium: Grass-fed beef — the most vegan item in the supermarket
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Animal fats can cause health issues. Grass fed may be better, but many farm raised for consumption contain antibiotics and steroids, etc.
Everyone has a choice to eat as they wish, it's our individual decision. You have yours, I have mine. I won't try to convince you, you can't convince me.
I'm sure there are health truths to both sides of being either vegan or carnivore, with the main difference being it's not the typical SAD diet that most people eat; that seems to be what makes people ill with the combination of fats with carbs. I think each to their own and do whatever works for you, but I see a lot of old statistics quoted that are somewhat meaningless in relation to grass fed animals. There's a lot to be said for grass fed ruminants being environmentally friendly when you take into account they can graze on land where crops can't be grown for instance. They also don't destroy the land in the way that large fields of grains do where they are sprayed with masses of insecticides and so on. Comparing grass fed vs. industry farmed (grain fed) is akin to apples and pears. Growing fields of wheat for cows isn't good; they should be eating grass!
I'm no expert of course, but I think Peter Ballerstedt (@GrassBased) has some interesting counter opinions at least worth hearing and comparing!
People used to die from infectious diseases, such as the flu. Unfortunately now, we live a lifestyle that allows for non infectious diseases to kill us, which of course progress much slower, such as diabetes and heart disease. People are not as active, they eat too much junk food, and live in environments that have a cocktail of pollutants...
I am guilty of living like this and there are somethings we just cannot avoid but I am actively trying to improve the parts of my life that I can change, such as losing weight from activity and a ketogenic diet.