Which Meat Is Actually the Best?

In rural Kentucky, a growing number of farmers are raising bison instead of cattle, not as a novelty, but because bison can be leaner than a trimmed beef steak with roughly the same protein. When you picture red meat, you probably picture one thing: a cow. But cattle are just one branch of a much bigger family tree. We put beef, lamb, goat, venison, and bison side by side across five criteria: protein, fat, micronutrients, taste, and cost and environmental impact. No assumptions, just the actual comparison. This video covers: ✅ Why protein content barely differs between beef, lamb, goat, venison and bison ✅ Why the cut matters more than the species when it comes to fat ✅ Goat: the world's most eaten red meat that most Western diets still ignore ✅ Why venison has the leanest protein-to-fat ratio of the five ✅ Why bison is often leaner than beef but costs more to raise and buy ✅ Why "best red meat" is really five separate questions, not one ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔬 KEY TOPICS & REFERENCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Heme iron absorption and B12/zinc/selenium content across red meats Joseph Poore & Thomas Nemecek (2018, Science): greenhouse gas emissions of beef and other foods Goat consumption patterns across Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and the Middle East Grass-fed bison farming and emissions compared to conventional beef cattle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This video is for educational & entertainment purposes only and is not nutritional or dietary advice. Nutrient values vary by cut, animal diet and farming method, and figures given are general estimates. #RedMeat #Nutrition #Beef #FoodScience #EATNEX