Is Whole Foods Beef Grass Fed?
Look for the Grass Fed Label Whole Foods carefully cultivates an impression that it is a responsible company, with an interest in the environment, treating its employees well, and providing healthy food. It would make sense to assume that the beef it sells is grass fed. But the truth is not so simple. While Whole...
Don’t Put Your Trust in Brands
By Garth Brown Can you guess what Panorama Grass-Fed Meats, Niman Ranch, Coleman Natural, Sonoma Red and now Pasturebird have in common? Given their names it would be natural to assume they’re all plucky upstarts trying to provide an alternative to industrial agriculture, and some of them were precisely this at one point. But what...
What is Grass Finished Beef?
Grass Finished Means Really, Truly Grass Fed Grass finished beef is beef from cows that have only ever eaten grass. The finishing period of a cow’s life is the final stage, at which point it may still be growing its frame a bit but is mostly gaining muscle and fat. For conventionally raised beef cows,...