Project Grass State-wide List of Farmers Selling Pasture Based; Milk, Cheese, Beef, Lamb, Chevon, Pork, Poultry, Eggs, and Grazing Replacement Livestock.
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Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From???
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Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From???Here is Your Chance to Know For Sure.
Research proves that Locally Grown Pasture Based Foods are fresher, healthier, and a more nutritious product for you and me! Choosing pastured animals that are eating the food that nature intended them to eat is supporting small farmers, safeguarding the environment, promoting animal welfare - and the plus for you is eating food that is nutritious, wholesome and delicious.
Dr. Susan K. Duckett, Clemson University Departmnt Of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, "RESEARCH PROVES PASTURE BASED BEEF AND LAMB HAVE LESS CHOLESTEROL CONTENT THAN CHICKEN BREAST".
E-Mail: sducket@clemson.edu;,"
Research also proves that livestock out grazing
lush pastures are physiologically happier animals - because they are doing what they are suppose to do, graze!
Meat from animals that graze exclusively on grasses, have the highest levels of omega-3s, CLA, beta carotene, and vitamin E. Few farms in Pennsylvania have lush pastures 12 months out of the year. But meat from an animal that has been able to graze at least 3 months before slaughter is still nutritionally superior to feedlot beef, even if the animal has also been given some grain. When grazing cows are fed concentrate supplements, the CLA content in milk is about two times that found in milk from cows fed in confinement. Research suggests that some modification of the diet of grazing cows can help increase the "healthful" fatty acids in milk. It is a matter of degree.
Grazing animals have lower risk of BSE, they eat what nature intended them to eat, grasses and other green plants. Research is now showing that choosing products from grass-fed animals may lower your risk of two other food borne illnesses, campylobacter and E. coli. Up until 1997 cattle were being fed meat that had been trimmed from other cattle, in effect turning herbivores (vegetarians) into carnivores. With this unnatural practice there is the belief that this is the underlying cause of "mad cow disease."
Grazing Poultry and pigs are not ruminants, so they cannot glean all their nutrients from pasture. They will always be given some grain or other feed supplements.
Ask questions: What steps have been taken to ensure a good eating experience for you. Were pesticides, herbicides, feed antibiotics, or growth-promoting hormones used in the production of these animals? Were the selection of animals done with the right genetics, gentle handling of the animals, and how was the meat tenderized?
Enjoy calling and visiting your local farmer, talk to him or her about their products, become educated in what you are buying, and most of all cherish the knowledge of knowing where your food comes from.
Sincerely,
Pennsylvania Project Grass State Steering Committee,
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PA Project Grass State-wide Programs and Other Web-sites
http://community.webtv.net/candacesburke/PAProjectGrassYouth.
http://community.webtv.net/PAProjectGrass/DoYouKnowWhereYour;
http://community.webtv.net/Burkes20/PAProjectGrass5.
http://community.webtv.net/jjburke/HistoryofPAProject.
Web Page by Candace S. Burke
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