HEALTHY MEAT: Grass Fed Beef, Pork, Lamb & Poultry – Where to Buy

There are some who will never consider eating meat again based on what they’ve seen and read about conventional farms. I don’t blame them. If that were my only option, I wouldn’t eat meat either. Thankfully, that’s not your only option. Instead, you can get your meat from a local farm who raise their animals humanely, feed them what they were meant to eat, don’t give them any hormones, antibiotics or other junk, and let them freely roam around on pasture.

But not everyone has access to healthy, local, grass-fed meat, so here is where you can order healthy, safe meat or cooking tallow online. (They’ll safely ship it to you.)

Grass fed is so superior to other meats, that once you know about it, it’s all you’ll want to feed your family.

ALL MEATS ARE NOT THE SAME

Just keep in mind that there are big differences in meats. Kent & I rarely buy from local grocery stores anymore, or even from local meat markets, because each time I’ve asked where their meat comes from, the answer is either “we don’t know“, or it goes something like this:

“Can you tell me where you get your beef?”

“Oh, it comes from a distributor down in Ohio somewhere.”

“Do you know where THEY get their meat?”

“I don’t really know, from all over I guess…”

That’s all it takes to convince me to avoid buying our meat there. I rarely even get past where their meat is from, to ask my other questions about what they’re fed, or whether they’re out on pasture, etc.

QUALITY MEAT

If you have a local source for quality meat, it’s best to support your local farmer, but if not, ordering safe, healthy meat is a great option. I also get things from them that my local farmer doesn’t have, like Beef Tallow Shortening to make healthy french fries! (Just don’t overheat the oil.) I’m also going to try (get this) Braunsweiger…yes, liver AND “head cheese” – sounds icky, I know, but if it actually tastes good (or at least OK), it’s a great way to get more organ meats into our diets. (I’ll let you know how it goes.)

MORE INFORMATION TO LOOK OVER:

• The Amazing Benefits of Grass-fed Meats from Mother Earth News
• Mother Earth News: “Omega-3 fatty acids are another vital nutrient that’s diminished by a feedlot diet. Calves start losing their stores of omega-3s as soon as they start eating grain. By the time they’re ready for market, very little of this heart-healthy fat remains. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a fat that appears to be a potent cancer fighter. CLA is higher in grazing animals than in feedlot animals. The longer the animals graze, according to a study published by the Journal of Animal Science, the higher the CLA content of their meat.”
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• Does Red Meat Cause Colon Cancer?
• Union of Concerned Scientists (This is scary about animal cloning.)
• Check out these healthy hot dogs!!
  
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