About Grass Fed Beef

There is now a big demand for all natural grass fed beef amongst the health conscious meat 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 meats know this very well. You may say that these meat producers price these products so high because “they can”. In other words, if the supply of these natural meat 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 meat 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 received a 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 meat products that you buy from commercial supermarkets.

There are much more that most meat 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 meat market economy. But is it all true?

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