Hobbs Hereford Farm offers quality
grass-fed beef
Grass-fed beef is vastly
superior to grain-fed beef, and in fact it’s the clear beef of
choice you should be eating. It is lower in fat than
regular beef, and more importantly, contains higher amounts of
conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), 3 to 5 times more than grain fed
animals.
CLA has been making
headlines for its extreme health benefits, which include:
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Helping you lose weight
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Increasing your metabolic rate, a positive benefit for promoting normal thyroid function
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Helping you maintain normal cholesterol and triglyceride levels
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Enhancing your immune system
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Fights inflammation
Strictly grass-fed cattle are not prone to the deadly stomach-acid resistant E-Coli bacteria to which grain-fed cattle are prone.
Grass-fed meat is almost
always preferable to even organic meat because most organic
meat is fed organic corn, which is what causes the myriad of
health problems associated with eating beef.
Grass fed products are
rich in all the fats now proven to be health-enhancing, but low
in fats that have been linked with disease.
COMPARING
OMEGA 6 TO OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS
Our ancestors’ diets
before the last 100 years likely had a ratio of 3 to 1.
Modern agriculture increased production by emphasizing grain
feeds for domestic livestock, and grains are rich in omega 6
fats. Therefore, aggressive, industrialized agricultural
management techniques have decreased the omega 3 fat content in
many foods: green leafy vegetables, eggs, animal meats (beef,
chicken, buffalo and even fish) to where the ratio is now closer
to 20 to 1. This huge imbalance appears to be responsible
for much imbalance in our body systems and responsible for many
of our health problems.
When we switch from
grain-fed to grass-fed meat, we are simply returning to the diet
of our fore- fathers, the diet that is most in harmony with our
physiology. Every cell and every system of our bodies will
function better when we eat products from animals raised on
grass.
Research from Utah State reconfirms health benefits of grass-fed beef
LOGAN, Utah: Research by
Drs Dhiman, Poulson and Cornforth in the Department of Animal
and Dairy Science at Utah State University have once again
confirmed the greater health benefits of grass-fed over grain
fed beef.
The research also
reconfirmed that steer calves fed grain early in their lives
never achieve the CLA levels of calves raised exclusively on
pasture for their entire lives.
Generally, the calves
fed grain early in their lives but finished on pasture had 218%
more of the anticarcinogenic CLA than feedlot-finished cattle,
but this was less than half the amount of the calves raised on
grass their entire life. This compares with 466% more in
completely grass-fed animals. This is the same magnitude of
increase previously found in the milk of completely grass-fed
dairy cows.
The Utah researchers
surmise that grain feeding at any time in the animal’s life
somehow decreases the expression of the mechanism responsible
for the synthesis and incorporation of the anticarcinogenic CLA
into meat tissues.
Some researchers have
argued that the leaner carcass of grass-fed animals offsets the
increased CLA content as the CLA is found mostly in the fat of
the animal.
However, the Utah
research said that even figuring a fat content of only 60% of
that of grain fed beef the CLA per 100 grams of meat was still
330 % greater. Also, the grain fed animals had only 60% as much
omega-3 fatty acid as the pasture finished animals.
Omega-3 fatty acids have
been found to increase immune function and to reduce heart
disease. Vitamin E in the meat was 300% higher than in the
grain-finished animals. This resulted in a significantly redder
meat color than that found in the grain fed animals.
There was no difference
in tenderness or juiciness between the three treatments.
However, a slight off-flavor was noted in the grass-fed and
grass-finished group.* Surprisingly, this off-flavor was not
found in the cattle which had been grain supplemented as stocker
cattle but had been completely grass-fed for the final 130 days
of their lives.
Other research by Dr. Dhiman in 2005 found that supplementing grass-fed steers with soybean oil for the last 105 days prior to harvest did not significantly increase CLA content in either grain fed or grass-fed animals.
*Note: In our 30 years
of farming, we have not had any negative reactions to the flavor
of our grass-fed beef, but rather many positive comments.
We invite you to try our product and see for yourself.
Not too long ago the local paper asked to do an article on us. They did a nice job of explaining what we do and who we are. We thought we would share it with those of you who peruse our web site just to give you a bit more detail about us as you consider the possibility of a beef purchase. They may have made us look a little better than we actually are, but they got the essence of it correct. Use the following link:
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