From the category archives:

grass-finished

Why I Call It Grass-Only, Not Grass-Fed Beef

April 24, 2009

As part of this week’s Fight Back Friday carnival, I want to share one of my most popular posts, All Beef Is Grass-Fed. I hope you’ll read and enjoy it. As an addendum, I continue to be amazed by how confusing it is for a mere mortal to see beyond label claims, especially when it [...]

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What’s Your Beef?

February 18, 2009

Fabulous article by Leslie Cole of The Oregonian on how to sort through confusing marketing and label claims with beef. Inspired by the same press release that had triggered this previous post, All Beef is Grass-Fed, she offers 5 Lessons for folks looking to buy grass-fed beef. I have a few extra thoughts but wanted [...]

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Lessons From Argentina, Walking Away from GrassFed is Bad

November 22, 2008

Allan Nation, the man when it comes to pastured finished livestock, blogs about Argentine farms in a perfect storm situation. I encourage you to go to this page and choose “Click Here for Allan’s Blog” and read the short note entitled “Argentine Farming In Melt-down.” If you don’t have time (it’s a really short, easy [...]

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Grass-Fed Beef & Droughts Don’t Mix

November 9, 2008

A lot of people have asked me why grass-fed (what I like to call grass-only) beef is more expensive, given that the ranchers / graziers don’t have to give the cattle growth hormones or preventative antibiotics to improve their, er, ability to get big fast. Well, that’s one of the points, grass-only beef takes longer [...]

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Bad News for Grass Finished Beef?

February 21, 2007

Allan Nation reports in his new blog that Whole Foods, to meet demand for grass-finished beef, is slaughtering cattle that are well short of being ready for market. The short-term result is a poor eating experience for the customer. The long-term result may be that people get turned off of grass-finished beef, thinking it’s not [...]

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