Buffalo - Saving them by eating them? - YES!!!

Helping to save the Buffalo by eating them - Yes!

It may seem counterintuitive that eating bison would help increase their population. But if the demand for the meat increased so would the amount of ranchers that would begin to raise them.
Unfortunately the prices of bison has risen so drastically that only wealthy people can now afford to purchase the meat.

The price of beef went so low that the average person would not buy bison meat for their families when they could buy beef for one fifth of the price. Popularity of bison meat has increased, unfortunately it is marketed as an expensive novelty item only available to the rich even though the cost of raising bison is much lower. The few places it is available it is often priced upwards of fifteen dollars per pound.

The common people are stuck consuming beef which is laden with antibiotic residue and microscopic parasites called flukes.

Beef is also much higher than bison in the low-density lipoproteins (bad cholestrol which clogs and hardens arteries).

Bison is much higher than beef in the high-density lipoproteins (good cholesterol which lubricates heart valves, keeps arteries flexible and dissolves plague on artery walls.)

Charts comparing the nutritional values of the two meats would make one wonder why anyone would even want to raise cattle in the first place.

There are so many things that could bring one to the conclusion that bison is truly a gift from a kind god that was intended to live along side humans.

Cattle will almost in every case destroy the foliage of any land they occupy because of their grazing habits. They stand in one spot and pull up the roots of vegetation, minimizing the possibility of regrowth.

In contrast bison almost always except in extremely crowded conditions improve the quality of the soil because of the way they graze. They walk as they graze - pruning the vegetation allowing sunlight to reach the lower part of the plant. The shape of their hooves aerate the soil and the occasional thundering of their hooves stimulates ezymatic activity which helps to break down nutrients and release nitrogen into it.

In the winter bison can forage for food through the snow. Cattle must be supplied with hay bails or they would die.

Bison do not require expensive and unhealthy antibiotics because of a powerful immune system . Cattle are entirely dependant on antibiotics or they would die of disease.

I could go on but I think the point is made.

The buffalo is a sacred animal that must be protected. If they are allowed to be killed off we will eventually die off as well.

Also the mistakes cattle ranchers have made with the cattle must not be made with those who raise bison.


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Check out the nutritional comparisons. The differences between beef and bison is quite drastic.