Grass-fed Beef: Is it worth the buy?

I have been buying and eating grass-fed beef for some time now. I have a lot to say but since this is a blog... I will only share some of the most important issues that I think must be shared.

I first bought and have been buying my grass-fed beef from a friend of a friend of mine, a longtime cowboy rancher named Dave Reynolds from South Dakota. It was my first time in many years eating 100% natural grass-fed beef with no trace of antibiotics, no additives, no hormones, and from cattle not fed with corn or grain, which probably one of the many things that the beef industry should really stop doing. They are ruminants, for beef's sake!

Dave Reynolds wants nothing from anyone but to share his honest principle in life, and that is, "...food should be as natural as we can possibly make it." That's one important thing I know and will probably believe for the rest of my life.

How about the taste, texture, and over all flavor? I couldn't even begin to describe it. When I opened up the package and looked at the beef, it seemed as if the meat was just cut a minute ago (though it took 4 days to ship, it was sealed air tight that not an air molecule could get in). It was as fresh as if I had just picked it up from the meat processing house. And don't even think about additives or preservatives. Dave does not even know much a about preservative chemicals let alone use it. Therefore, I did feel content and satisfied that I'm not about to be a victim of an e.coli outbreak. And, one less chemical load I'm putting into my system. So, my body should not deteriorate as fast as other beef eaters :)

Price you ask? Well, I paid about $7.40 per pound including the four steaks (by the way, grass-fed beef steaks go as high as $25.00 to $34.00 per pound, just so you know) that came with the package; the price did include shipping. And when I did my research on price comparison, as I already mentioned, the going price for grass-fed beef is $12.00/lb for low end meat cuts and as high as $34.00/lb on the high end (e.g. NY steak, fillet minion, etc.). So, think about it. Just think about this for a moment. I don't get why people have to pay so much for grass-fed beef. I mean, I understand why they are so valuable to our healthy and sustainable lifestyle, but when I inquired about how much do they really cost, based on the rancher's overhead cost to raise them, Dave said it is true that ranchers do spend some of their own money upfront to raise the cattle for a year or two before they are sold. But the real price of the grass-fed beef is not anywhere close to what other online companies are asking for. They really aren't. However, small family owned ranchers do struggle to keep their operation going because of the lack of support and funding from the government.

Anyways, that's it for my comment and hope for you to start supporting our natural ways of producing our food. Let's keep us all healthy.

Here's Dave Reynolds' website: Buy Grass-fed Beef

Part 1 - Benefits of Grass Fed Beef

There is now a big demand for all natural grass fed beef amongst the health conscious beef consumers. But affordable grass fed beef is not easy to find. Although you may find these high-priced grass fed beef products on the Internet or through mail order catalog, they are meant to cater mainly the upper middle class people who can afford these inflated prices. Now, you may wonder why is it that these prices are so high, that only the rich can afford them. Well, the prices of all-natural grass fed beef are extremely high because of high in demand but lack of supply. And producers of these natural healthy beefs know this very well. You may say that these beef producers price these products so high because “they can”. In other words, if the supply of these natural beef products somehow met the demand these prices would not be as inflated and exaggerated.

Knowledgably consumers also know the difference in value between commercial grocery beef and natural grass fed beef. Most beef that we buy from our local supermarkets are from large corporate feedlots. Feedlots are these confined ranches where cows are grain or corn fed to increase their body fat before slaughter for better profit gain. Not to mention that these cows receive regular synthetic hormonal treatment to increase their muscle mass. This inhumane practice is known to have harmful effects on the consumers. You should also know that diseases amongst cows that are in these confined conditions are very prevalent which forces ranchers to treat them with antibiotics which then become part, as residue, of the beef products that you buy from commercial supermarkets.

There are much more that most beef consumers do not know about the real reason for the scarcity of natural grass fed beef. Most of us have been told that it is just too costly to produce 100% natural grass fed beef and sustainable ranching is just not conducive to fit our modern beef market economy. But is it all true?

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