Why buy locally-raised grass-fed beef
Cows are by nature designed to eat grass, but industrial feedlots, which supply over 90% of America's supermarkets and fast-food meat, force them to eat grain to fatten and "marble" the meat. As a result, most feedlot cattle are sick and require antibiotics to stay alive. Feedlots cause environmental damage as well.
Grass fed beef has the following advantages over grain-finished beef:
- 10 times higher in beta carotene
- 5 times higer in antioxidantconjugated linoleic acid
- 4-6 times lower in overall fat
- 2-4 times higher in omega-3 fatty acids adn a healthier ratio of omega-3s to omega-6s
- 4 times higher Vitamin E
- Higher in Vitamin C. B vitamins thiamin and riboflaven, calcium, magnesium and potassium
- Virtually no risk of E coli
- No antibiotics, homones or steroids used
- Purchasing local beef supports your farmer neighbors, reconnects consumers with producers and reduces reliance on fossil fuels.