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For Those Interested in the Research of Dr. Weston A. Price |
Posted on 03/07/2008 3:13:29 PM PST by stillafreemind
Ever seen a cattle feedlot up close? Most are mud/manure filled lots with your next hamburger walking in them. The cattle are fed a mixture of things to 'fill them up'. Most have 7-way vaccinations, antibiotics,wormers and hormone treatments. Have I turned you off yet? Don't despair, grass fed beef raised on pastures and hay are making a comeback. As are the cowboys needed to raise them.
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Real cowboys and real beef! Enough to get Texas gal’s heart fluttering.
I like my beef corn fed.
You mean hormone and drug enriched cloned cattle aren’t ALLL the rage. /s
All I eat at home is SD grass-fed beef straight from my cousin’s pasture. I wouldn’t change a thing. In fact, I think it may be time to go pull the grill out of the garage and throw a ribeye on.
we usally buy a cow and have it butchered, grain finished tastes much better and is much more tender.
Where do you get it?
It’d be better to feed cattle on hemp instead of grass. It’s a lot more nutritious.
It was done in both Liechtenstein and Switzerland for years, until both countries banned it for the same bad reason the US did. It’s hemp, not marijuana. It doesn’t have any drug in it. The farmers were upset because the cows gave more milk and had better tasting meat than with grass.
Banning it was as stupid as banning grass because dumb cane is a grass, and could make you sick if you ate it. They are two different things.
If cows were fed on hemp pellets, not only is it a lot less expensive than grain, but grows just about anywhere needing no pesticides or even irrigation. And cows would need to eat a lot less of it than grass.
That doesn’t turn me off, I like thinking that my beef doesn’t have worms crawling through it upon its demise and processing... So grass fed cattle are still wormed, right? i sure hope so.
I sold my farming operation back in 1986.
Back then I couldn’t imagine anyone actually paying real money for ‘organic’ foods. Pay a PREMIUM for lower quality? Unthinkable. Wish I had realized folks would, as I would be producing and selling organic today.
This may not be ‘organic’ as such, just a tougher beef than corn fed.
Go for it folks, buy away. I say that with all seriousness.
Me, having seen the difference right where it happens, I’ll stick with my ‘inorganic’ foods.
I believe some stores are actually carrying grass fed beef now. Depending on where you live, you probably have some homesteaders or ranchers with it.
You can also google grass fed beef for sale or something similar and get many places where they are selling it.
We raise our own. And can hardly eat the other now.
If you have more questions..please ask.
ah, I see you haven’t tried Dexter meat yet. You can cut it with a fork!
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Yeah, this sounds real cheep. Just give the cattle saké and daily massages while you’re at it.
What do you think about taste and tenderness?
It turns me off. Those cattle are fed things that most people would not believe. They are stuffed into lots where manure and mud are par for the course. Which leads to worms, which is actually the least of the problems they encounter.
You are eating antibiotics up the whazoo.
Not so with the grass fed beef. They have room to roam (and stay out of each others poop.) If you read the article, they are also very unlikely to carry the camplylobacter bacteria and E. coli. I don’t believe a cow that has been totally grass fed has ever come down with mad cow either.
But hey, SOMEBODY has to eat the manure, I mean feed lot products.
I would say most of it is. To be organic, they have to be. But I don’t know many folks that are using pesticides on the grass with the grass fed cattle.
I am not familiar with Dexter meat, what is it?
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