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Does anyone eat it? Where do you buy it from?
 
My mom purchases a cow from a farmer out here.. it's like 200 bucks but the meat lasts her months. She usually splits the cost and everything with her neighbors. I could ask her.
It's grass fed and not factory farmed..
 
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Currently, the world produces enough food for every person to have 3000 calories a day. But much of that is put into raising livestock for meat, which reduces the number of calories/person available drastically. It's inefficient. I have no problem eating meat, but I do feel bad about the hunger thing. I would like to try to transition to grass-fed beef as much as possible but I haven't had much luck finding it in supermarkets, either.
 
We get ours from a guy we know who owns a ranch. He contacts people who want a half calf and then delivers them to the butcher. We get the meat wrapped ready for the chest freezer and eat on it all year long.

The meat tastes good. Even the ground meat - and I haven't liked ground beef for many years.

They aren't fed anything other than what they get out in the pasture with Mom. No additives from the meat industry in the processing. There's not much fat in the meat at all. And the best part is - no chemicals introduced through the corn based feed which is normally given to them in the feed lots.

Find a local butcher and see if he has a source.
 
corndogman said:
Supposedly. I want to try some.
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It is much better for you.. cows raised on grains are more susceptible to illness and that's why there's so many antibiotics pumped into grain fed cows. and grass fed beef tastes better and has many more nutrients that your body needs

edit - also if you live around a farmer's market, go there. you may not find the beef but I'm pretty sure if you ask around you'll find someone who knows where to get it. and pick up some local produce while you're there!
 
The Jester said:
Is it better than regular?
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Yes, far far better... better for you, better for the cow, better for the environment. For one, the grass has nutrients the cow is MEANT to ingest, and thus the cow's meat is leaner and better for you (milk probably too). The cow tends to live longer and healthier (important if you like milk). And, finally, the cow doesn't suffer indigestion its entire life and stops producing vast quantities of methane (which is 14x to 21x more intense a greenhouse gas than both carbon dioxide AND water vapor... and when it oxidizes (reducing breathable oxygen in the air) it then BECOMES carbon dioxide and water vapor.)

Yes, grass feed beef is the best beef you can get... still kind of a net loss in terms of expense in growing them vs. other meat sources, but soooooo much better than free range corn fed and magnitudes better than factory farm corn fed.
 
Holden On said:
Currently, the world produces enough food for every person to have 3000 calories a day. But much of that is put into raising livestock for meat, which reduces the number of calories/person available drastically. It's inefficient. I have no problem eating meat, but I do feel bad about the hunger thing. I would like to try to transition to grass-fed beef as much as possible but I haven't had much luck finding it in supermarkets, either.
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While that is true, it's largely true because we're burning through the remaining ecosystems in excess of 10x the rate they can be restored... i.e., trying to feed 7 billion people even 1500-2000 calories (much less 3000) will further what is already the 6th largest extinction level event in the fossil record, and that inevitability is only delayed slightly by trying to do it without expensive meat products. (though, hell, any delay might buy us time to find better solutions.)

Just saying, don't go believing that doing even half as much damage as we are doing now is going to be anywhere remotely close to being within the visible horizon of sustainable.
 
~jet said:
Just saying, don't go believing that doing even half as much damage as we are doing now is going to be anywhere remotely close to being within the visible horizon of sustainable.
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No, but it's better than doing nothing. And if my eating a little less meat and/or grass-fed beef helps a few more people in developing nations have more to eat, then I'm all for it.
 
All i know is that what the big meat companies feed the cows no causes a growth of ecol i bacteria in their stomachs. In the documentary Food Inc. (Netflix on demand) they said that the deaths from the ecol i in the burgers back in the 80s were caused by non-deadly ecol i bacteria evolving into a deadly strain of ecol i. The film also mentioned that by feeding the cows grass, the bad ecol i would go away in about a month or something.
 
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