Most of my life I’ve been mostly vegetarian. It started as a young child with me trying to hide the meat on my plate. I gagged on meat and couldn’t handle the taste. As I got older it was as much about the fact that I’m an animal lover and couldn’t stand how feedlot animals were treated.
Real Food News You Can Use: How to buy meat.
Dr. Heidi 5 min AUDIO here (5 mins).
For my vegetarian friends – I’m not saying you need to change anything, this is for the Omnivores looking for the Healthy Meat (yes even RED meat is healthy!)
I’ve read the stories about red meat. And more here. To balance it all out I’ve also read books like Pasture Perfect
Here’s the definition of good red meat.
Good red meat comes from grass-fed animals. Grass-fed animals are pastured. [NOT pasteurized - but pastured.] This, my omnivore friends, you CAN eat. I do.
Grass-fed animals are allowed to forage and graze in pastures – on grass and other stuff on the grounds. Eating what they eat naturally. They’re not force fed corn and soy, and not shot full of antibiotics and growth hormones. Because they’re not sick like most of the feedlot cows in America are.
Good meat shopping tip:
When shopping for meat, ASK the meat person:
Do you have 100% grass-fed beef?
Eat Wild
Local Harvest
Weston A Price Foundation
If you can’t find pastured meat near you, there are resources online.
US Wellness Meats sells quality grassland meat products – Visit them Online.
Until you find a farmer or grass-fed beef source, at the very minimum, to preserve your body, ask for meats from animals that have not been fed antibiotics and hormones. Ask at the meat counter.
AUDIO: Dr. Heidi describes how to recognize and buy good red meat here (5 mins).
P.S. For the story on good meat, bad meat Please see here.
The story about Grass Fed Beef as told by others:
- Alternative Farming
- Alternative Faming has links to a wealth of information about grass-fed animals, as well as articles on sustainable and humane farming practices.
- The American Grassfed Association
- The American Grassfed Association defines grass-fed products from ruminants, including cattle, bison, goats and sheep, as those food products from animals that have eaten nothing but their mother’s milk and fresh grass or grass-type hay from birth to harvest—all their lives. For grass-fed non-ruminants, including pigs and poultry, grass is a significant part of their diets, but not the entirety of their diets, since these animals need to consume grains. Many products have been, and continue to be, marketed as “grass-fed”, when grass is only a part of their diet. This lack of standardization on grass-fed products is just one of the reasons the American Grassfed Association is pushing hard for strict U.S. Department of Agriculture guides on grassfed marketing claims.
- Graham Harvey’s News from the Grassroots
- UK author Graham Harvey is one of grass-fed’s biggest champions. He blogs about the issue on this site, and often contributes articles on the topic to London’s The Guardian.
- Grass Fed Beef
- A collaboration between the University of California Cooperative Extension Service and California State University, Chico, Grass Fed Beef explores all the latest scientific information on grass-fed beef.
- Humane Farm Animal Care
- The humane treatment of our animals is one the hallmarks of the U.S. Wellness Meats brand. Learn more about the lives and health of farm animals at Humane Farm Animal Care and their “Certified Humane” program at www.certifiedhumane.org.
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