I finally got around to buying grass fed beef in bulk and can’t wait to introduce this healthy indulgence to our diets once or twice a week.  It seems like red meat is always popping up on lists of bad things to eat; better order the chicken not the steak. What gives?

The red meat of today that you find in your grocery store comes from cows that have been raised in atrocious conditions and fed grains, corn and loads of antibiotics and hormones to induce fast growth and fatness. The food they’re feeding them itself was grown using GMO’s and pesticides. Pure garbage.

The meat I recently purchased is from Brandon Natural Beef, and the cattle are raised from birth in natural grass fields in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado; grazing on a cacophony of natural mountain grasses that flavor the meat. I’m told that I should experiment and source from different farmers as tasting the different meats is like tasting different wines. This is the meat that our disease and ailment-free ancestors ate. (I know we live longer now, but that’s not because people were dying from cancer and heart disease, they were dying from cholera, dysentery, influenza, malaria, etc… things we have medicine for now).  Grass fed beef contains higher levels of healthy fats like cancer-fighting CLA and inflammation reducing omega-3’s and lower amounts of omega-6 and saturated fats than their grain fed malnourished brothers.

Haven’t cooked it yet, that will be blog 2, but so excited to try it.  The meat you see in this picture was ~$400, and includes the following:

15 – 12 oz. Rib eye
8 – 12 oz. New york strip

4 – 7 oz. Tenderloin Filet
2 – 22 oz. T-Bone
3 – 3 lb briskets
15 lbs ground beef

$400 sounds like a lot. Right? Well it did to me, but let’s break this down in a very simple manner. The 29 steaks that I purchased, would easily average $12 each for the corn, grain, and GMO poisoned beef.  That’s $348 already, and I haven’t even accounted for the briskets and ground beef. I’d say I got a pretty good deal.

So clean out some freezer space, clean ahead and buy in bulk and eat guilt free red meat.

Fun fact: Michael Jordan ate a 23 oz steak before every game…though not sure if it was grass fed.

Here’s a link to a discussion between Ben Greenfield and John Wood the CEO of US Wellness Meats.

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