Grass-fed Beef Phenomenon Down Under

There's a funny thing happening with beef exports down in Austalia and I'm betting this is going to be good for the grass-fed beef industry worldwide. A report on JCN Network states that Australian beef exports to Japan fell overall in May. That was to be expected, what with the high cost of grains and the weak world economy. But what interested me was that while exports expensive grainfed beef to Japan decreased during that month, the exports of "cheaper grassfed beef" increased. That is fantastic news for the grassfed industry. It is getting competitive. Hey, it might even actually pay the public to eat delicious, healthy, nutritious, low-fast meat in the future. What great news!

What Standards Apply To Grassfed Beef?

We are often asked about the standards that apply to Grassfed Beef. Well, you should visit the American Grassfed Association (of which we are members) and go to the Standards page. It's all there!

Make The Most Of Grassfed Beef

If you are a lover of grassfed beef (as we are!) you need to know about Shannon Hayes (above), who is the author of The Grassfed Gourmet and The Farmer and the Grill, the host of www.grassfedcooking.com and a New York farmer herself. You can order her books on the above website. She takes grassfed cookery to a whole new level. Thanks Shannon and congratulations on your dedication to a wonderful, world-saving cause.

Eat Grassfed Beef And Save The World

I always knew there was more to cornfed cattle than over fatty meat that tastes like a feedlot. Well, it turns out I was right.

The world food crisis is making people focus on the cost of corn and it emerges that cornfed meat consumption is an even bigger villain that biofuels when it comes to corn-gobbling.

Only about 10% of the world's corn goes to biofuels, while a staggering 40% goes into meat production. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition estimates that it takes at least 8 pounds of grain to make every pound of cornfed beef. For an intelligent, detailed article on this argument, take a look here.

So to make a meaningful contribution to solving the world food crisis, choose grassfed beef. You can't get any greener....

Thanks To Jo Robinson For The Book On Grassfed Beef

How many people know that the NY Times best selling author, Jo Robinson, has produced a great book entitled "Why Grassfed is Best!" on the benefits of grassfed beef? This is a must-have book about healthy beef and, incidentally, healthy living. Order her book here. Or go here for an interesting article by Jo, just to give you a foretaste...

She Had A Beef, But Not Any More!

A lot of good things start at home. Like charity. Like eating healthy. Like awareness of things pure and things green. And who better to know about all these good things than a home-schooling mom of five great kids aged 14 to 23?

A lady calling her blog Working Out The Quinques (and calling herself Bensrib) tells a chilling story about her daughter Abbie who got sick eating take-out burgers -- and not from just one take-out line either. Eventually Abbie was getting sick even after sit-down steak meals in restaurants. She went off eating beef entirely. Read the whole sordid saga here.

Eventually Abbie couldn't even stomach the thought of beef -- until a friend advised her mom to get some real beef - the kind that says, "grass fed cattle, never given antibiotics or growth hormones." So the lady did. And you know what? Abbie didn't get sick! Now Abbie has discovered a restaurant that serves grassfed beef so she can eat beef in restaurants again.

Now, that's just one mom sharing, as she says, her thoughts about her little corner of the world. It makes you wonder how many other kids in other little corners of the world are sick because of beef contaminated by all sorts of hormones and chemicals.....

Give the Gift of Pancreatic Cancer?

I stumbled on a controversial cartoon by Mike Adams posted at www.newstarget.com. It features two women standing at a display case looking to buy some sausage product from "Hickary Farms". The sign board above the display has the sub-headline of "Give the Gift of Pancreatic Cancer". Yikes! It also says the sausage is made with "real processed meat" and "made with real chemicals". Makes you want to reconsider what you eat. Check it out here.