08/09/2022
𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒏𝒐.4- 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒘𝒔
This week we’d like to tell you more about the way we farm our cows.
There are many terms that are being thrown around that can be confusing and even misleading to the public.
Our cows are grass fed. They eat absolutely nothing except grass. They don't receive any routine antibiotics or any additional feed of any kind.
They get moved to fresh pastures x3 times a day. But, besides the fact that they are grass-fed, it is even more important to know that they are also 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬-𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝.
Grass-finished beef comes from cattle that ate nothing but grass and forage for their entire lives. Grass-fed, may be used to label meat from cattle that were started on a grass diet but have either received supplemental grain feed or are finished on a fully grain-based diet. In fact, many “grass-fed” cows spend the last few months of their lives eating grain in feedlots to help them quickly gain weight.
PS. Cattle are not required to have a full grass-fed diet in order to get the “grass-fed” label on your beef’s packaging.
Moreover, meat marked as “Free range” at the grocery store, are not necessarily grass-fed. Grass-finished beef may be marketed as grass-fed beef, but not vice versa.
At Usana Pastures, our beef is 100% grass-fed, grass-finished and free-range.
