SO NICE I POSTED IT TWICE - MEET YOUR MEAT! (pasture raised vs conventional)

MONDAY MEAT-UP! MEET YOUR MEAT

Have you actually seen where your food comes from? I’m not talking grocery store, plastic wrapped, chunks of some reddish coloured slab of protein. I’m talking about a farm. Think about it? Do you really know where your food comes from? I mean, for crying out loud, you probably spent more time figuring out what smart phone you’re going to buy than you did about what you're going to put in your mouth. Let me fill you in on why you need to start thinking about it.

PASTURE RAISED VS CONVENTIONALLY RAISED

Bah, who am I kidding, this isn’t a debate, this is a full on beat down and I’m siding with pasture raised meat. I’m here to tell you why you should seriously start thinking about buying pasture raised meat, whenever you can. Ding, ding , ding! Fight!
In a nutshell; when you buy pastured meat, eggs, and dairy products you're not only taking a step to safeguard your health, protect the environment, and improve animal well being, you're also supporting sustainable farming. You see those happy cows out in the field, they enjoy a much higher quality of life than those confined within intensive production systems. Pasture-based systems can help the environment, especially through fertilizing the soil (they eat, they poop) and by reducing the amount of grain produced as feed. In addition to all that, pastured meat is lower in calories and total fat, has higher levels of vitamins, and a healthier balance of omega-3, while pasture-raised chickens produce eggs with brighter, more orange-colored yolks than conventional eggs. Not to mention taste better. My four, Ladybirds make the best eggs!
You may be wondering why is it that grass-fed beef is lower in calories, contains more healthy omega-3 fats, more vitamins A and E, higher levels of antioxidants, and up to seven times the beta-carotene than the feedlot beef? Apart from the abysmal conditions most factory farmed animals must endure, cows are grass-eaters, not corn or grain eaters. Grass! These other foods raise acidity levels in their bodies, making them more susceptible to illness, including E. coli and other bacterial infections. They also are more likely to suffer from dehydration, intestinal damage, and liver problems.
Likewise, free-range chickens aren't actually free-range. Watch out for labels. Some producers abuse this term and label their eggs as “free range” when in fact all they have done is open a door to allow their chickens to range in an outdoor area of bare dirt or concrete, and most little chickies, in fact, never actually go outside. But pasture-raised, chickens, really do spend most of their days out in the big wide world. Happily clucking and pecking away for whatever grass, weed seeds, insects and worms they can find. And it’s those lucky ducks, or rather chickens, who have up to 20 percent less total fat, less saturated fat, and 28 percent fewer calories than factory-farmed chickens. Eggs from pastured chickens also have 10 percent less fat, 40 percent more vitamin A, and 400 percent more omega-3s.
It makes the choice pretty easy; one is relatively flavorless, comes from an animal that has suffered, and is unhealthy. The other comes from an animal that is treated humanely and never receives artificial hormones or antibiotics, and is good for you. So, go find a local farmer and get yourself some happy meat. You’ll feel better for it!

Did You Know?
-A cow must consume about 8 pounds of grain in order to yield one pound of meat.
-It is estimated that 12 to 32 % of all feedlot cattle develop liver abscesses as a result of the high-grain diet.
-If you, like the average American, eat 67 pounds of beef per year, then switching from conventional beef to pastured beef would reduce your yearly calorie intake by 16,642 calories!

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