Comments on: Grass-finished Beef vs. CAFO Beef

By: Healthy Pets As Part Of A Healthy Family

Healthy Pets As Part Of A Healthy Family — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:07:51 +0000

[...] The implications of humans eating industrialized food, even if labeled organic, are no different than the implications of our beloved household pets eating industrialized food. The amount of processing kibble and wet food goes through before being consumed isn’t much different from the slop fed to cows in a CAFO. [...]

By: Get Freekeh with Ancient Grains: Braised Lamb with Freekeh Pilaf

Get Freekeh with Ancient Grains: Braised Lamb with Freekeh Pilaf — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:24:39 +0000

[...] made this with beef, and it was great. Either type of meat works well; just make sure it’s grass-fed and grass-finished if possible. The freekeh is then added in, with beef broth or chicken broth in a proportion of 1:2, [...]

By: Magda

Magda — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:12:32 +0000

I have been getting into eating solely locally-grown food an loving it! I am currently on a hunt to find the farmer who “has it all” in terms of meats – 100% grass-fed and finished beef and lamb and soy-free chickens raised without hormones, steroids or the use of chemicals. I believe I’ve found them in Lancaster and wanted to ask some questions regarding ordering wholes and halves of beef and lamb. I am a single college student and wanted to know how much typically come in either and what size of chest freezer is reasonable. What size and brand of freezer does your family use?

By: Living Naturally: If I can’t afford organic, where do I start? « raising vintage kids in a modern world

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:08:22 +0000

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By: Should You Eat CAFO Beef or Grass Fed Beef? | Keep Going Green

Should You Eat CAFO Beef or Grass Fed Beef? | Keep Going Green — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:47:24 +0000

[...] better healthy food choice for the regular consumer, it is also much more environmentally friendly. Grass- fed cattle has been advocated in a buzz like state. Many sustainable living supporters ususll… Advocates of green living and sustainable living highly recommend grass-fed beef to even [...]

By: Free Range Freezer | Green Girl Inc

Free Range Freezer | Green Girl Inc — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:35 +0000

[...] coming from, I know the conditions in which it was raised, and I feel less at risk for E Coli from CAFO raised [...]

By: Giveaway: Win $140 in Grass-fed Meat & Snacks for Your Next BBQ

Giveaway: Win $140 in Grass-fed Meat & Snacks for Your Next BBQ — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:13:58 +0000

[...] on just how grass-fed meats are different, check out this post covering the difference between grass-fed and CAFO-raised meat, or learn how to pan-fry a great [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:50:55 +0000

I already get the daily email from The Nourished Kitchen and enjoy it greatly. I would invite my siblings to a bbq of grass fed meat. Some of them just don’t believe there is a health, or taste difference, and the ones that do would be happy to enjoy it with us.

By: Ridge Shinn

Ridge Shinn — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:26:59 +0000

I have to keep going after reading a few more comments. There are so many good excuses to feed grain to cattle (they are still wrong), but there are cattle that get fat looking at grass and to feed grain would make them obese. These easy-fleshing cattle were listed as a “rare breed” as recently as 2002 because they do not work on the industrial feedlot. For grass they are a wonder. I imported a whole herd of these cattle from New Zealand last year: they are Devon cattle that I purchased from the Rotokawa stud or farm–visit http://www.rotokawacattle.com for more info. These are cattle like the cattle that were around before the feedlot craze in the 1960′s. Many folks will have to “prop” up their cattle with grain if they are “industrial cattle”–you have to find/breed grass cattle to have success on a grass-only diet. Many folks are having great success–we buy from 20 producers to supply the cattle we harvest weekly and sell in NYC and Boston-visit http://www.hardwickbeef.com. The real key is the consumer getting educated and then insisting on what she/they want. This will provide the “pull on the rope” instead of the “push on the rope” many of us are trying.

By: Ridge Shinn

Ridge Shinn — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:15:05 +0000

In response to feeding grain, I like to tell folks that this 100% grass-fed and finished is like pregnancy–either you are or you are not. What the research shows (Susan Duckett-Clemson University) is that as soon as you feed corn/grain in any form you change the omega 6: omega 3 ratio of the meat. This is like a finger print–she can precipitate the fat out of a piece of meat, measure this ratio and tell you whether that animal ate grain/corn. Of course the imbalance of this ratio (10 omega 6 to 1 omega 3) found in grain finished meat is the cause of the health related problems we have all heard of in red meat. The nearly 1:1 ratio found in grass-fed and finished is perfect for human health. These are EFA”s essential fatty-acids and critical to important things like brain function. It is critically important that the consumer understands this and insists on it in the market place. Everyone in the market place claims to be “grass-fed” now because the consumer wants it but almost all is pseudo, sort of, kind of , almost grass-fed and finished. Research shows a “bit of grain” ruins the ratios. Get educated visit http://www.eatwild.com for the data.