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- Is this substance good or bad for health? Is there some limit on consumption like there is for fat and salt etc.?
- Is it nutritious in any way?

I don't eat beef. It's unhealthy, expensive, bad for the environment/economy and is produced in a violent way.

Some studies say 'red' meat is bad for you. They conflict on exactly how much is bad for you, it's just there was one very recently that says that any at all increases mortality rates. I'm sure there's a thousand statistical caveats that weren't in the headline on that.

While carefully cleaned and fresh (or prepared from fresh stuff clean enough to not require aggressive chemicals to disinfect it) entrails are perfectly good food (they can even be a delicacy), that ugly processed stuff should be used only as low grade pet food. Two examples: best quality fresh tripe isn't bleached and is washed so well to not have any bad smell; carefully washed pig bowels are not only used as sausage casings, but spiced, cured, slightly smoked and dried they can become a sausage themselves (typical of umbria, Italy). Stuff that needs the aggressive treatment of pink slime indicates that the base ingredients have terribly low quality and were at some stage in horrible hygienic conditions.

I hear beef is bad for your colon.

Down with the beef! Eat Turkey burgers!

just reposted on facebook. what a joke. why do we even have the usda/fda if they are going to say stuff like this can be sold as normal beef. It should at minimum at least be labeled as containing meat sterilized with ammonia gas.

You serious? Pretty much EVERYONE says so.

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"If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero."
     -- Walter Willett, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, director of a study that found a close correlation between red meat consumption and colon cancer.

"Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods....

  "Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts."
    -- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., of Cornell University, director of a study of 6,500 Chinese that found a close correlation between meat consumption and the incidence of heart disease and cancer.

  "The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of real food for real people, you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."
     -- Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C.

  "When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings."
     -- William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology

  "All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes."
     -- Michael Klaper, M.D., Medical Director, EarthSave Foundation, Santa Cruz, California

"The thousands of people who have suffered food poisoning after eating beef will, no doubt, appreciate that their beef was aesthetically acceptable, even though it made them ill. Lovely to look at, dangerous to eat is not a standard that is likely to help beef sales."
     -- Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture during the Carter administration, commenting on the inadequacy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Streamlined (Meat) Inspection System (SIS).

  "As happened with tobacco, health warnings about meat eating are multiplying, and awareness of the environmental effects of meat production is rising. Just as cigarettes lost their allure, meat is losing its social cachet in some countries. Food marketers in the United Kingdom estimate that 2 million people in that country are strict vegetarians. More important, the number of people limiting meat in their diets is rising rapidly. An estimated 6 million people in the United Kingdom dine on meatless meals most of the time."
     -- Alan B. Durning and Holly B. Brough, in Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C., 1991

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'''We need the nutrients meat contains. (Or do you just not eat beef and eat other types of meat?)''

This is one of the most ridiculous myths. I've been completely vegetarian for over 7 years (no egg either) and I hardly ever get sick. I have friends that are vegan with perfect health. WHICH nutrients do we NEED from meat? Because I know hundreds of people that are vegetarian and - on average - they have much better health than the other people I know.

Are you being condescending spurge!? Hmmmw.

Another problem is you can't digest grass. Even if you tried eating it, you would get sick. Horses freak out about luscious green grass, and rightly so - their sensory system screams with joy when they see the sweet grasses.

Yeah I read something similar recently that was something like any red meat increase heart problems by 20% or something outrageous like that. Needless to say, I've been avoiding beef recently, and have been preferring whole fish and shrimp.

Although I've heard for a while that it's not that red meat is a problem, but ground beef.

No. I do not take any supplements or eat fortified food. I don't take note of how many proteins or iron or B12 or whatever I take in. It's not an issue at all. The only people that suffer from issues are those that become vegan/vegetarian in a non-vegetarian family and then they suffer from malnutrition because they try to brave it out and not complain even though they are silently starving (personal experience here).

I don't eat much either, because I'm incredibly lazy. The proof that I'm incredibly lazy is that I stayed at home 2 days this week and played videogames despite my work/studies, but that's not exactly the point. The proof that I don't eat much is that I had a tiny cup of cereal with milk and honey this morning, one pack of french fries for lunch, and two slices of bread with avo for dinner today. Other days I could eat more, but if there's one thing I learnt from Ayurveda it's that people generally eat too much.

The point is I'm not a health freak at all, but I can absolutely confirm that my health has been incredibly good the last 7 years. I used to get flu once or twice a year, and colds and sinuses too. Now I sometimes go a whole year without feeling any ill health at all.

Iron smiron. baaah.