The Accusation Against Beef

Could Beef Be Better for a Small Planet?

William Jacob Hays, Sr., The Gathering of the Herd, 1866. Courtesy of American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection. Photograph by William J. O’Connor.

CATTLE WERE FAR from the first grazing animals in the New World. On April 22, 1805, near what is now Williston, North Dakota, Meriwether Lewis wrote: “I asscended to the top of the cutt bluff …