| Today most meat producers have stopped sending | | | | calories and cholesterol. It also has more Vitamin E, |
| their animals to be fattened up by grains, soy and | | | | Vitamin C, beta carotene, Omega 3 fatty acids, a |
| other such food supplements. Instead of artificially | | | | number or health promoting fats and Conjugated |
| plumping them up they choose to keep them on the | | | | Linoleic Acid or CLA. If you are looking for grass fed |
| range where they can forage on the natural pastures | | | | beef then you can get some with OBE Organics. |
| which is their native diet. These animals are called | | | | About Grass Farming: |
| grass fed animals. | | | | Raising animals on the range is not an easy job as it |
| About Grass Fed Animals: | | | | requires more knowledge and skill than just sending |
| New age ranchers are choosing not to treat their | | | | them to the feedlot. For the grass fed beef to be |
| livestock or animals with hormones or give them | | | | tender and succulent it is essential that the cattle |
| growth promoting additives. As a result the animals | | | | feed on high quality grasses and legumes when they |
| grow at their own natural pace. Due to these | | | | are foraging. Providing this natural and nutrition rich |
| reasons the animals live a low stress life and there is | | | | diet requires the soil and the pasture management to |
| no reason to treat them with antibiotics or drugs. | | | | put in hard work so that the plants and the grass are |
| They are more Nutritious | | | | at an optimal stage of growth. Because only high |
| A major benefit of raising the animals on the range is | | | | quality grass pastures are the key to high quality |
| that the meat from these animals is healthier for you. | | | | animals and then consequently meat, pasture based |
| In comparison to feedlot meat, the meat from grass | | | | ranchers prefer to call themselves "grass farmers" |
| fed animals like cattle, bison, sheep, goats, lamb have | | | | rather than ranchers. They raise the grass and the |
| a lower percentage of total fat, saturated fat, | | | | animals do the rest of the work. |