Grass Fed And Grass Finished
All of us wellness meats beef products are 100 grass fed and grass finished.
Grass fed and grass finished. Why does grass fed and finished really matter. When beef is grain finished cattle are free to eat a balanced diet of grain local feed ingredients like potato hulls or sugar beets and hay or forage at the feedyard. Ayoba yo droewors beef sticks 2 oz. Certified piedmontese grass fed grass finished beef is melt in your mouth tender thanks to the unique piedmontese breed.
Grass fed beef is marketed as the healthiest choice for meat but the term grass fed is unregulated and falls into a bit of a grey area. As with our biltong we start with. Grass fed beef may contain less total fat than grain fed beef but a lot more omega 3 fatty acids and cla which are both linked to health benefits. Grain finished cattle like grass finished spend the majority of their lives eating grass and forage in pastures.
Grass finished means the animal has reached physical maturity and was kept on grass while developing exterior and intramuscular fat. It s beef that s as tender and delicious as it is nutritious. In fact many grass fed cows spend the last few months of their lives eating grain in feedlots to help them quickly gain weight. In the conventional grain fed beef industry the finishing stage demands a completely separate feeding strategy typically using a specially formulated feed ration and a confinement feeding system feedlot far removed from the grass pastures where the calves were born and raised.
Grass fed on the other hand may be used to label meat from cattle that were started on a grass diet but have either received supplemental grain feed or are finished on a fully grain based diet. Written by dennis keohane on april 13 2018 one of the more fascinating aspects of the meat industry in the united states is the use and misuse of product naming and labeling by various purveyors. Grass fed beef is more nutritious. There s a major difference between grass fed and grass finished cows that many people don t know about.
Grass fed grass finished boneless ribeye. Grass fed and grass finished beef. Grass fed beef bundle 8 14 oz. No grain is ever fed to grass finished animals and this process will typically take from 24 36 months compared to the 18 20 months for feedlot cattle.