Is eating steak considered unclean eating?

I think this depends a lot on whether or not the cows themselves 'ate clean' (preferably grass fed, not grain fed) and weren't given steroids or other types of growth hormones. If you can get your beef from an educated, consciencious local farmer who feeds that same meat to his family my personnal opinion is that the meat could certainly be considered clean eating.

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Laurie :)
 
Lean is good and it's clean. We eat it a few times a month. For beef, I like to use grass fed, free range, organic because the cows are not fed bovine growth hormones and antibiotics to make them larger and less inclined to illness. "Humanely raised" products can be found at most health store chains like Wild Oats and Trader Joe's carries grass fed beef often. It is leaner and carries more of the beneficial omega's since the cattle eat the diet mother nature intended them to and are not fattened up with corn before slaughter. It also removes the question of mad cow disease. :)
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
I've had this question for a long time. Red meat has such a bad rap and I don't think it's meat that's bad. I've read so many times that we really need to limit (or exclude) red meats in order to have a healthy diet. My husband hunts and we have 2 big freezors full of venison and other wild meats all the time. So I eat lots and lots of good, very lean, wild red meat. I wish these experts that advise us on diet wouldn't make these blanket statements. There are sources of good healthy red meats.
 
The only drawback I see is that very lean ground beef is hard to grill well, so I usually make tacos instead and I drain it to boot. They are opening an In and Out Burger near here and when they do, I plan to go once a month. They never freeze their meat, make fries with fresh taters they peel and cut themselves and make their own lovely buns. Mmmm mmm. My husband buys fillets sometimes and he goes to the regular grocer and could care less about organic and all that jazz. And when he does, I eat it. It's all about compromise, after all. And I can always use the iron which is the most easily absorbed type as far as I'm concerned. I moderate red meat, yes, but I will never give it up again. ;) I don't eat any pork and it's a wonder I haven't turned into a chicken or laid an egg since that's the one protein everyone will eat (except my vegetarian daughter). I try to do fish at least once a week and I eat vegetarian most of the time at breakfast and lunch, but dinner is more likely to be an animal protein, although I do opt to eat with Ali, the vegetarian, several times a week. My diet is suqeaky clean 95% of the time but I reserve the right to indulge too! Did I tell you they put thousand island dressing on the burgers at In and Out?
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Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
Yes, steak can be considered clean in most diets not all, but do try to get the leanest possible. And don't put too much stuff on it. Or it can turn something healthy into something fatening.

Another alternative is buffalo. Tastes a lot like steak but seems to have a bit more flavor, which means you don’t have to marinate it, to have taste. It is a bit leaner and easier to fire-grill, at least always seems to be for me. And looks like steak when cooked so you can basically fool a lot of the picky eaters who don’t know better. This is the only red-meat I can eat. Beef, will send me into an instant Lupus flare, unless it’s hit heavy with steroids etc, and I don’t want it, if it’s had that. A really nice man, gave me buffalo steak as a gift one time, and I didn’t want to waste it, didn’t exactly know what to do with it, so I just simply cooked it like I did beef, and fell in love with it. Especially once I started doing research and found out, buffalo is a bit more healthy, and most are grass feed still.

Kit
 
Great question Linda! and I love the replies you got too. I eat lean red meat I would say once a week or once every two weeks and when I do I feel I can take on the world. My energy level goes through the roof! I was reading an article a couple of weeks ago about the content of vitamin B12 in red meat and I immediately understood why I feel like that when I eat it. I prefer to eat white meat or fish, but sometimes I have to eat red meat.
 
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