Factory Farms & Grass Fed Beef - An audio program I heard on NPR dealing with cattle industry health issues. A well organized and interesting discussion of feed lots, corn feeding, medicating, grass feeding, etc.

For the past two years, we've been buying grass fed beef from local farmers in a cooperative manner where we organize with friends to buy an entire cow, then split it up when it is ready to butcher. It is great tasting meat and we know the people who feed it and take care of it every day. Even though it is more expensive for a rancher to raise cattle this way, we actually save money vs. buying at the grocery store (and especially vs. buying grass-fed at whole foods) because we're buying in bulk with no middle-men.

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