Top 5 Questions to ask your grassfed beef supplier 1. Do your cattle spend 365 days a year roaming the pastures eating native grasses and forbs? 2. Do you feed a commercially grown crop to your cattle during any time of the year? Alfalfa and other supplemental feeds are grown using pesticides, herbicides and other things which you might not want in your food 3. Do you treat your cattle with dewormers? Lice control fly spray? These products are often injected (yes, seriously) or fed to cattle in their salt or mineral supply. Oftentimes, a rancher might not even realize it is part of the feed or supplement they are buying! 4. Do you feed anything with Porcine fat or other animal byproducts? Porcine fat is actually not required to be listed as an animal byproducts so people could be feeding tubs of molasses which contain added Porcine fat and it will say no animal byproducts which is totally shady. 5. Do you feed ionophores? Do you treat your cattle with antibiotics? Which shots do you give your cattle?. Some ranchers live in climates where supplemental feed is simply a part of life in the winter or other dormant months. You need to ask what they feed so you can decide where on the spectrum you want to be. Some people send their cattle to feed on corn stalks which have been sprayed with Roundup and other toxic chemicals. They might not have considered that this would be something a consumer needs to know. It is really up to you to ask the right questions. Cattle in some areas might need supplemental salt and minerals. Redmond Salt is really a complete and completely organic supplement which would be all a rancher needs. Many ranchers will just go buy whatever salt and mineral they have always used without realizing that it contains fly control pesticides or has added ionophores or contains animal byproducts. The food industry is full of loopholes, false claims and corruption! You have to educate yourself and ask your supplier all the questions and educate your supplier! Find a supplier which checks as many of the boxes that are on your list!

Daily rant against the anti-meat Mafia. Have you heard the "it takes 300 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef", so beef is bad for the environment argument? You have to admit that whoever is behind the anti-meat propaganda are extremely clever. They take advantage of the fact that 90% of the population live in a city and have very little understanding about where their food comes from and don't really think even superficially about the sound bite fed to them.. A friend came out to the ranch for a visit. She is a super person, interested in organic food, and a serious carnivore but as we were touring the ranch she said, "it's too bad that cows are so bad for the environment. Did you know it takes 300 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef?" I am pretty easy going but this set me off. I asked her to explain the statement and she said, well I guess it is because they drink so much water. So I told her to use the head planted firmly on her shoulders to explain to me where that water goes after the cow drinks it and how exactly that is bad for the environment. She was confused, so I said "the cow drinks 30 gallons of water, and then does that water disappear from the earth? Is it zapped away into outer space? No, the cow then proceeds to walk across the field and redistribute that water in various places ." I know there are many smart scientists on NOSTR so I would like to hear confirmation from someone that the water indeed does not disappear! The next rant will be about cow farts and how awful they are compared to the alternatives #grassfed #cowfarts #climatechange #antifarmjng #climatehoax