Many health scares regarding animal products have arisen in recent years; the avian and swine influenzas, and ‘mad cow’ disease top among them. All these potential epidemics have one thing in common; the animals that have been infected with these bacteria and infections have come from agribusiness farms. What is worse is that those animals are filled with antibiotics routinely so as to prevent unnecessary and harmful bacteria, but the few microorganisms that are resistant to the antibiotics flourish in the absence of the nonresistant strains. That is how we find ourselves in the midst of pending pandemics, against which we have no line of defense.
These diseases come about merely because of the conditions in which the animals are raised; they are brought up in detrimental surroundings that act as giant Petri dishes for bacteria. However, there is an alternative which many people are turning to in these times of anxiety about the factory farmed meats. Free range beef, chicken and dairy products are virtually free of the bacteria and diseases that run unchecked through mass produced meats and products. Grass fed and grass finished meats are healthier and more nutritious than their commercial counterparts. Many of the unnatural commercial practices employed in raising mass-marketed beef and other animals, including the overuse of human antibiotics on animals, have been banned in many European countries for years, including England. Grass farming does not use any of the hurtful tactics that are used by the commercial farming industry.|These problems that worry the majority of people come about chiefly because of the circumstances in which factory-farm animals are raised. Luckily, there is something that can be done to protect you and your loved ones from the risks involved when partaking in the mainstream meats. Grass fed and grass finished meats are the alternative to which many are turning to get more safe sources of protein for their families. Grass fed cattle and grass fed chicken are not raised in the harsh and inhospitable environments as those who are raised on antibiotics and hormones. They are allowed to feast on open pastures and have the individual space they need to flourish and live blissful, healthy lives. Because they enjoy this better lifestyle and are raised and allowed to grow and mature at a natural rate, they are much healthier for us, as well. Many foreign nationalities have known for several years that the tactics used by commercial farmers are brutal, hazardous and plainly, wrong. Grass fed animals are virtually free of viruses and harmful bacteria on any scale, so that means much less threat of disease in the meats supplied by grass farmers.
Not only are the grass fed meats safer for consumption, they are naturally better tasting and more nutritious. Grass fed beef is available in all the mealtime favorites; grass fed rib eyes, grass fed hamburger, filet minion. The possibilities, as with commercial beef, are endless, the only dissimilarity is that you can be assured that you are getting the best purchasable meat for your table with grass fed and grass finished meat. When these animals are being grass fed, they are eating their natural diet in an open field, instead of cheap factory-provided feed in a pen barely large enough to accommodate them. Vitamin-rich meat comes from animals that eat vitamin-rich food during their lifetimes; it’s as simple as that. Is there any reason to complicate the fragile balance of animals and nature coexisting with each other by adding factories, awful living conditions, and unnecessary medication into the mix? Of course not. That is where grass fed beef comes in.
As our country grows increasingly concerned with health, as we ought to be, many people are considering the amount of calories they consume. Yet another benefit of grass fed and grass finished beef is this; if you were to substitute all of your beef with grass fed beef; without changing anything else in your eating habits, you would save yourself over seventeen thousand calories a year! At that rate you would lose about six pounds a year. What a jumpstart to a improved, more vigorous way of life! Imagining the opportunities, however, is nothing compared to living the reality. Find out just how improved your life can be, and not just around the dinner table; make grass fed beef, free range chicken and even organic cheese the first step to your better life.
- Becky Langley