Grass-Fed Beef is Better for Your Health and the Environment

re: Grass-Fed Beef is Better for Your Health and the Environment

Magnolia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:18:24 GMT

I used to get grass fed beef from a biodynamic farmer years ago. He would go to the slaughterhouse with a bull and keep it calm and relaxed right up until slaughter time. Best tasting beef I ever had. No tissues flooded with hormones associated with panic and stress.

If you've ever been to a slaughterhouse, the animals often start realizing that this is not a good place to be, long before they are loaded into the chute. My husband designed the water treatment facility at a Florida slaughterhouse and reported seeing a bull jumping the fence and galloping off down the road. Smart bull! But I wouldn't want his meat on my plate after that!

re: Grass-Fed Beef is Better for Your Health and the Environment

Charisse — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:57:54 GMT

I love grass fed beef!! In tests it has the equivalent amt. of Omega 3s as wild alaskan Salmon (stay away from farm raised)....Since I am so afraid of fish contamination....I have been eating grass fed beef a couple of times a week( in addition to non pasturized milk, yogurt and grass fed butter).....my cholesterol was just done and it is 176 (a little too low for my age...should be 220) my triglycerides are 40 and my HDL is 54!!!.......Beef is not too blame.....it is the way it is raised..

Beware of "organic" beef...these cows could just be getting organic grain...and still not out in a pasture.....or getting organic "hay"...not the fresh stuff.....really know your source!...I travel two hours one way to get my beef (and pork and chickens and butter and cheese)....from an amish farmer...his cows are from an old line of his family's.....the chickens are in the pasture with the cows scratching at the cow patties to eat the maggots.....anybody familiar with permaculture knows what I'm talking about (for those who don't, it's steps beyond just organic...here's a crash course, if you're interested http://www.permaculture.org.uk/mm.asp?mmfile=Origins_of_permaculture just 100 acres done properly could feed a whole community

The cost isn't as expensive as in the stores...in my area (PA) 1# of grass fed groundbeef is approx. $6.88, on the farm it's approx. $2.50......my farmer is also an amish butcher...everything is cut to my specs (delmonicos are approx. $4.25/ lb.) I go maybe 3x per year and load my freezer...a lot of my friends follow.....The meat is so fresh! Slaughtered the day before and deep ruby red...like red wine...not that bright christmas red you see in the stores(fake! and grain fed)

Cows are not meant to be fed corn...peace!

re: Grass-Fed Beef is Better for Your Health and the Environment

BeeGirl — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:25:13 GMT

In China, where they eat a lot of donkey, the skin is especially prized for it's high Vitamin D content. I wonder if this is true for cow skin, also.

re: Grass-Fed Beef is Better for Your Health and the Environment

david — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:15:56 GMT

This has been well known for a long time.
If grass-feeding animals are fed grains....they become as sick and nutrient deficient as we do...and then we eat them...
...No surprise there then!
I like the wrapper around Anchor butter, which explains succinctly about their cows eating grass and flowers.....