Yet another reason to buy grass fed

(Ross Daniel) #1

I was on reddit, and this was on my main feed:

http://fox6now.com/2017/01/18/thousands-of-red-skittles-spill-onto-dodge-county-highway/

"A former farmer told CNN affiliate WBAY that candy makers and bakeries often sell rejects to be used as cattle feed because they provide “cheap carbs.”

Um...Ew
(Derek I. Batting) #2

“I think it’s a viable (diet),” John Waller, an animal science professor at the University of Tennessee, told Live Science. “It keeps fat material from going out in the landfill, and it’s a good way to get nutrients in these cattle.

Let’s let this quote and where it came from sink in for a second.

Am I missing something? Are Skittle secretly nutrient-dense and I’ve been eschewing them all along?

(jilliangordona) #3

I believe by “fat material” he is meaning something that will fatten up the cattle.

(Guardian of the bacon) #4

It’s standard practice.

You think they actually throw away “bad” batches of candy, baked goods, NOPE… It all ends up as animal feed somewhere.

(Ross Daniel) #5

I hadn’t really thought about it, but it makes sense. Waste not, want not and all. Just sucks that “food” like that is even produced in the first place. I guess I’m sugarphobic more so after reading The Case Against Sugar :neutral_face:

(Dustin Cade) #6

Even with the promise and price that grass fed meat provides how are we truly sure they’ve really been eating grass or how long they were grass fed…

(Dustin Cade) #7

I’m very skeptical, organic, free range, cage free, all the new age tag lines… how are we really sure?

(Ross Daniel) #8

I guess we can’t be 100% sure unless WE grow and/or raise our own food. Since that isn’t always feasible, we have to rely on certifying bodies that certify if a given food is organic or free range or grass fed or what have you. It sucks, but that is what the world looks like… albeit myopic to me at this point because of my nutrition obsession of late, lol :sunglasses:

(Dustin Cade) #9

Even if I go with the regular meat, the regular bacon, the regular butter, I’m leaps and bounds ahead of where I was just 4 months ago

(Ross Daniel) #10

Exactly. I think that is the story with a lot of us, me for sure.

(Guardian of the bacon) #11

Grow your own…or go visit a small local farmer and see how he feeds and cares for his animals.

(I want abs... olutely all the bacon) #12

A friend living in Iowa responded to my post of the article on FB “Yup and they eat cereal bars and fruit snacks too and oatmeal and grits”

(Guardian of the bacon) #13

Yup all the out of date stuff ends up in aniamal feed of some sort

#14

I see the makings of a very funny Far Side cartoon from this.

(Mark Bousquet) #15

One way to tell is that grass fed grass finished beef will have little to NO marbling. For example…

Wolf Creek Farm…

Ribeye

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NY Strip

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Now to finding it…

Butcherbox subscriptions include only pastured grass fed grass finished beef products.

But if you want, you can find a local farmer on eatwild.com, get a tour and find out their practices.

Happy Hunting! :slight_smile:

(Guardian of the bacon) #16

Give me a year or 3 to grow my herd and I’ll hopefully have a side or 2 to sell on occasion…Not going to be solving the world wide grass fed beef shortage anytime soon…

(Mark Bousquet) #17

FYI Jimmy Moore has a coupon for ButcherBox. You can find it on his blog. :smiley:

(Stephanie Hanson) #18

I seriously hope the University of Tennessee is embarrassed by someone on faculty saying something so absurd.

(AnnaLeeThal) #19

Dibs!!

(Guardian of the bacon) #20

I’ll call you…in the meantime don’t hold your breath. The girls are 6 months from breeding age. Although we may have some grass fed Jersey Next summer…not this summer.