How Often Do You Eat Beef?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

The argument has been made that beef eating is not environmentally sustainable. I think doing anything excessively is what is not sustainable. However, I wanted to know how frequently do non-vegetarians eat beef?

I eat beef once ever 2 weeks in the summer and once a week in winter.


So how often do beef eaters eat beef?

[supernova]

1. Once or twice a month

But I have heart disease. I seem to feel better when I eat it than not. I especially crave it during or just after my period.

Mostly I stick to chicken, pork, or fish.

[IndianaJones]

2. 1-2 times a week. nt.

[JANdad]

3. Several times a week...

$1.99 per pound on sale (ground)...livin' on a tight budget ya know...

[Left Is Write]

4. About twice a week.

We eat beef, poultry, pork, and fish, and we also do meatless meals.

However, we eat beef more than twice a week if I've made a roast beef dinner. I can usually get 3-4 meals out of that.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. yeah once a make a big beef thing, it does last a while.

but those are rare exceptions

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Several times a week, at least.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

you are such a failure as an indian. the only person worse at it, is me.

:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. No kidding.

:P

[JVS]

45. You should have seen a friend of mine from Pakistan

We both were majoring in the same multiple subjects, so out of 5 classes, 3 of them were together, and because our daily schedule we always hung out during lunchtime. When ramadan came, he kept insisting that we go to McDonalds each day so he could eat 2 fish sandwiches for lunch. His family was wondering why he kept putting on weight and wasn't very hungry at the evening meal.

[BarenakedLady]

6. Oh sure

You had to stick "non-vegetarians" in there. Now I can't be a smart ass.

;)

[cobalt1999]

7. Probably 2-3 times per week.

Of course if I make a huge amount of spaghetti or lasagna, that may be served for days.

[pagerbear]

9. Whenever I feel like it--I don't keep track.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. you must have some idea.

:P

[pagerbear]

18. Nope--no one's ever accused me of having an idea!

[YankeyMCC]

11. Once or twice a month these days

I also only eat the beef I get from a local farm that practices organic and sustainable farming.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. i try to get organic beef to. most of the restaurants we go to, serve organic as well.

[YankeyMCC]

22. How to deal with eating out has been my latest self-challenge

I no longer order beef when I go out unless I know the restaurant uses organically raised meat. It's a challenge because I love the local bbq place and they don't use organically raised meat...I figure I will have to break my rule a couple times a year anyway. :shrug:

[mwdem]

15. I try to stay organic, too.

I eat beef once or twice a week. I love it, can't help it.

[crim son]

12. Twice a week, certainly.

I love it.

[AllegroRondo]

13. the only beef I eat regularly is ground beef

maybe once a week. A steak is a rare luxury.

[LSK]

16. varies

Sometimes I can eat it on 3 consecutive days, sometimes I can go without it for 3 consecutive days.

Probably averages out to every other day.

[meegbear]

17. At least once a week ...

more if I could afford it.

[TheProphetess]

19. 2-3 times per week

We also eat lots of chicken and fish, plus some pork and lamb. We eat tons of vegetables and fruits from local farmers and we've been buying more and more of our meat from local farmers as well. We now belong to a cow-share so our milk and eggs come straight from the farm to our kitchen (from grass-fed cows and free range chickens).

I think the issue of environmental sustainability needs to be about eating locally versus eating meat and produce that is shipped 1500 miles away from your table. Right now, eating locally is easy for us, as we live in farm country and there are lots of organic meat and produce co-ops around here. I realize that it's harder for others to do that but eating as locally as possible is key.

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. 4 or 5 times per week.

[guitar man]

21. once or twice a week

we have swithced to eating more chicken and fish in place of the amount of beef we used to eat. Mostly ground beef when we do.

I try to do some rib-eyes on the grill once or twice a month though...:D

[Ariana Celeste]

23. once a month at this point

trying to drop it completely. already dropped pork.

[havocmom]

24. 2 -4 times a month

Note to red meat lovers: Try emu. Really good, lower cost to environment per pound.

Emu burgers are the best burgers!

[ElboRuum]

26. At least once a week...

Sometimes once every week and a half. I tend to spread my dead animal flesh consumption pretty evenly across the majors: Pork, beef, chicken, fish, but lately I've been leaning a little more heavily toward the chicken.

[bigwillq]

27. Several times a week

I am a threat to the environment.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. are you planning on having kids?

[bigwillq]

29. Nope

I don't want any kids

[La Lioness Priyanka]

30. well that makes you less than disastrous.

:P :loveya:

[Dervill Crow]

31. Speaking for the nonvegetarians in my family . . .

My sons and husband eat beef 4-5 times a week.

One daughter never eats it, the other eats it perhaps twice a month.

[MrCoffee]

32. Whenever I can.

[MysticalChicken]

33. Not very often...

...but I had some last night if Steak-umms count.

I'm more of a poultry person.

[billyskank]

34. Delete.

.

[edbermac]

35. About 50% poultry, 25% beef, 25% veggie.

Been eating a lot of hummus for lunch lately. :9

[TommyO]

36. Not as much as I used to

Looking back, it hasn't been very often recently - once every two weeks seems to be my going rate. Once in a while, I'll go on a burger bender and have it every day for two or three days, then back to a couple of times a month.

[triguy46]

37. We're getting bullish on buffalo of late.

Very lean, very tasty. Plus from our farmer's market, organic, no drugs/hormones.

[leftofthedial]

38. once a wwek

sometimes two in the summer, grilling

[Burma Jones]

39. twice a week, or so

Local, grass-fed and humanely raised/killed beef

[Lyric]

40. About 10-12 times a month

We also eat lots of chicken, occasionally pork, and (rarely) fish.

[Mr. McD]

41. 4 or 5 times a week

It is farm raised and grass fed. I buy it by the half.

[redqueen]

42. Every other week or so.

Chicken is much more frequent... once or twice a week.

[KoKo]

43. DU POSTERS...have TURNED ME OFF AGAINST BEEF! I can't eat it unless

I'm desperate for some blood....and then...I know I'm going to get MAD COW!

Seriosly...I'm scared to death of eating beef with what I've read about it since I've been here. I limit it...but the CHICKEN is GETTIN BORING...no matter how many ways I can cook it...so once in awhile I seek out Whole Foods for source....but I don't trust them. Their meat is TOO RED in COLOR! You'd have to have been around like me to know that real good, tender beef isn't bright red and dripping with blood....ugh....

[NashVegas]

44. 2-4 Times Per Month, Give Or Take

Sometimes I'll go several weeks w/out beef, then have it 2 days in a row. No real pattern.

[mainegreen]

46. About once a month. And it's small portions too.

A little beef goes a long way.

[ChoralScholar]

47. Way too much lately.

Not agreeing with me.

[The Straight Story]

48. either beef or chicken almost every day

sometimes fish.

[bluethruandthru]

49. Never

I haven't eaten beef, pork or any "red meat" for nearly 30 years. I do eat poultry and fish.

[stuntcat]

52. actually

now that I think of it, I don't eat it either. For years I've had yummy veggie burgers instead of the regular ones my husband gets and when I make tacos I have corn and beans while he has ground beef. I can't remember having it. I haven't missed it, I never liked the way it felt anyway.

I've cut down on pork a lot but I use it for pasta sauce about every other week. It's complicated to make a big sauce in two parts, one for the meat eater and one for me.

[flvegan]

50. "I think doing anything excessively is what is not sustainable"

Let us all know how that works for you.

Lots of hybrid vehicles out there, with consideration that the argument has been made that driving a hybrid is more environmentally sustainable than the...other option.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. its going very well for me. thanks for asking.

[Der Blaue Engel]

58. I agree with you

It's one of the principles I try to live by: everything in moderation. It feels right to me, dare I say, on a spiritual level (coming from an atheistic pagan). Nothing feels more spiritually/emotionally out of balance to me than self-righteousness, no matter what good it professes to be in the name of.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

63. people have been eating meat for centuries, its only unsustainable now, because of the amounts

in which we eat.

in meat eating parts of india, no one has red meat more than once a week, and even less in the summer.

meat is sustainable, excessive indulgence of anything (including bottled water) isnt.

[Seashell Eyes]

53. 2 to 3 times per week. It varies.

[BlooInBloo]

54. beef: 2-4/wk, chicken: 2-4/week, pork: 2-4/week, no meat: yah, right....

... He says, polishing off his first loaded pizza, moving on to the next.

[Zomby Woof]

55. Once or twice a month

Love it, but I am balancing my soy protein intake with that of meat protein. I eat more poultry than any other kind of meat, however.

[fizzgig]

56. very, very rarely

i can't afford it

[Der Blaue Engel]

57. Once every couple of months

I prefer fish or chicken, but every once in a while I get a hankering for a steak. It used to be just once a year, for prime rib on my birthday, but this past year I've had it a few times.

[Throd]

59. 3 times a week.

I love to barbecue. I roast some form of animal flesh about every other day, Usually beef or chicken. Every now and then I'll do shrimp, squid, salmon or scallops.

Oh yeah, and tripe. To barbecue tripe properly is an art. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...triiiiiiiiiipe.......

[datasuspect]

60. not nearly enough

[enigmatic]

61. 2-3 times a week

We usually try to eat fish 2 times a week and Bison (which I love) the other days. We're in the middle of cattle country up here so the prices are pretty good for both beef and bison..

[BlooInBloo]

62. How much beef can a beef eater eat if a beef eater could eat beef....

... A beef eater would eat as much beef as a beef eater could eat if a beef eater could eat beef.

Ta-da!

[MiserableFailure]

64. I eat beef or chicken probably 6 nights a week

My blood pressure is 107 over 67, and my total cholesterol is 158. My bad cholesterol is way below average. I'm 175 pounds at 6'2". I watch what I eat religiously and I try to work out 2-3 times per week. I'm also 41, so no fast metabolism here.

contrary to popular belief, and i quote, "blood pressure is a continuum with decreasing pathology associated with lower levels to well within the current "optimum" range". that means that it's better to have a systolic of 110 than 120. all systolic pressures below 120 are not equal.

[Fox Mulder]

65. About once a week at most.

If even that.

I tend to eat chicken most days. I don't know if that's any better for the environment, though. :shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

66. I stopped eating it when I was a teen and saw a truckload of cattle go by

Thinking about what awaited the gentle beings looking out through the slats of the truck with their big brown eyes made me vow never to eat cow -- or pig -- again.

[WinkyDink]

67. Haven't for at least 7 years. Mad Cow bums me out.