Always Buy Organic Grass Fed Beef

Red Meat with beef in par­tic­u­lar is an energy dense food that is jam packed with nutri­tion in a small pack­age.   This means that it should be eaten in mod­er­a­tion. It has a full com­ple­ment of B vit­a­mins, min­er­als and amino acids.  There are 12 cuts of Red Meat that have less sat­u­rated fat then chicken.  I have heard and read a lot about the ben­e­fits of being a Veg­e­tar­ian. For the major­ity of us, being a Veg­e­tar­ian is not prac­ti­cal because of the spec­trum of nutri­ents the body requires.  For exam­ple, how many of us want to forgo the fat we need in our diet cur­rently obtained through red meat for nuts and avo­ca­dos. To be a healthy veg­e­tar­ian requires an inor­di­nate amount of time spent in shop­ping, prepa­ra­tion and con­sump­tion of large var­ied and highly per­ish­able meals. In many instances you would have to eat pounds of veg­eta­bles and nuts for the healthy ben­e­fits con­tained in 1/3 of a pound of red meat.  There­fore, let’s dis­cuss the ben­e­fits of Organic grass fed Red Meat and why it is good for you in moderation.

Red meat is the main com­po­nent of some of the most sat­is­fy­ing meals I have ever eaten.  This is due to the den­sity of vit­a­mins, min­er­als, enzymes, amino acids and fat all in one source.  One thing we hear a lot about today is fla­vor.  Fla­vor is good, but nutri­tion is bet­ter.  When we sit down to eat, it is the process of putting qual­ity fuel into your body to live a bet­ter, stronger and healthy life.  We as a whole need to stop eat­ing for taste sen­sa­tions and taste bud enter­tain­ment.  We need to edu­cate our taste buds as to what healthy food taste like.  When you eat Carpac­cio or want a rare steak, there is noth­ing wrong with it.  Just make sure you are eat­ing organic grass fed beef.

Fat in the diet is essen­tial for the proper absorp­tion of spe­cific vit­a­mins and min­er­als.  The body requires less then 60 grams of total fat daily.  Of that amount less then 20 grams should be sat­u­rated fat.  The prob­lem most peo­ple face is sim­ply eat­ing too much meat or meat that is not organic.  Don’t even think that a $1 ham­burger or taco is healthy for you.  Good meat is more expen­sive then that.

Some­times you hear peo­ple say, your eat­ing too much red meat.  The prob­lem is your eat­ing too much corn fed red meat.  If you are con­cerned about your diet, shouldn’t you be con­cerned about the diet the ani­mal your eating ?

Because of the way the U.S. gov­ern­ment sub­si­dizes corn, it is used in a wide vari­ety of prod­ucts in order to bring down cost.  By cre­at­ing high fruc­tose corn syrup, they have reduced the cost of sweet­en­ers. The prob­lem is fruc­tose can’t be used as is by the cells and must be con­vert to glu­cose for energy.  The down­side of this is that the bod­ies over pro­duc­tion of glu­cose is con­verted to glyco­gen which rapidly con­verts to fat.  HFCS is in every­thing from bread to bev­er­ages.  You can­not avoid it if you are not prepar­ing your own food. In the mid 80′ High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup became the sweet­ener of choice for the food indus­try.  This usage peaked around the turn of the cen­tury and the symp­tom of its use became obvi­ous and severe.  Dia­betes and Obe­sity rose at rates not before seen and health care cost began to sky­rocket out of con­trol. High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup is not okay in mod­er­a­tion. It is an unneeded chem­i­cal cre­ation pro­duced due to the low cost of gov­ern­ment sub­si­dized corn and is used to lower the cost in processed food prod­ucts.   When have you seen a recipe call for High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup.  Use your Com­mon Sense and think about it.  When view­ing the chart below, isn’t this about the time folks became fat.  Read the ingre­di­ents of every­thing you buy.

High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup is toxic in as much as it pro­vides zero nutri­tional value and will make you ill and you won’t even know your con­sum­ing it.  If you read our arti­cle on genetic vari­a­tion, then you real­ize that not every­one will process this chem­i­cal the same way.  Some peo­ple may con­vert all or most of it into glu­cose, where oth­ers may only con­vert a small por­tion.  This is what I call man play­ing God with a small “g”.

Another of those sub­si­dized corn prod­ucts is cat­tle feed.  Cat­tle does not nat­u­rally eat corn.  Cat­tle eats grass.  Now after see­ing what High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup has done to us as a pop­u­la­tion , think what it does to a cow. Before corn and grain based cat­tle feed, it took 4 – 5 years for a cow to be born and sold for slaugh­ter.  Now with corn and grain based cat­tle feed, com­bined with growth hor­mones a cow grows from 80 to 1,200 pounds in 14 to 16 months. Corn is fed to cat­tle because it is cheap and plen­ti­ful and speeds up the growth cycle of the cat­tle from birth to mar­ket. In other words, makes the cat­tle fat.  This feed pro­duces dan­ger­ously high lev­els of sat­u­rated fat, low­ers Omega-3 fatty acids and cre­ates the deadly  E. Coli bac­te­ria that we hear so much about.  This bac­te­ria is in the run off of cat­tle pens and con­t­a­m­i­nates the sur­round­ing farms veg­eta­bles.  To top it off, it isn’t really corn per se, it is corn feed, a byprod­uct after what­ever was needed from the corn for other uses has been taken out.

Corn fed cat­tle is just plain nasty and you don’t see the com­mer­cial ranch­ers show­ing you pic­tures of it do you.  They just show you pic­tures of the good grass fed cat­tle they buy from small ranch­ers.  Yet when they started this prac­tice they adver­tised it as if it were more nutri­tious for you.  Now here is the kicker. The USDA grades meat based on the fat mar­bling in the meat. Why? Because Fat taste good. This makes the most unhealthy meat the most expen­sive fur­ther­ing this insane cycle of reward­ing irre­spon­si­ble behav­ior by the meat indus­try. Fla­vor not qual­ity deter­mines the price, because Prime beef is less nutri­tious than Select in most instances. Price is ele­vated based on the corn they feed to fat­ten up the cat­tle, which is toxic to cattle.

Healthy meat is organic grass fed cat­tle which is com­pletely dif­fer­ent in nutri­tional value.  Now when you go to Burger King or McDonald’s and buy a $1 burger, do you think that cat­tle used in that $1 burger is corn fed or grass fed?

In the begin­ning, I am sure it started as a good idea to pro­duce as much food as cheaply as pos­si­ble, but now we are see­ing the results in our epi­demic of bad health in this country.

When you buy meat in the Super­mar­ket, do you look for the organic grass fed vari­ety?  Chances are you are just look­ing at the cut of meat for ten­der­ness, fla­vor or pur­pose of sta­tus when entertaining.

Cho­les­terol is some­thing few peo­ple truly under­stand.  First of all cho­les­terol is absolutely essen­tial to the proper func­tion of the human body.  The major­ity of cho­les­terol is cre­ated by the body.  This is why you should watch foods that con­tain it in abun­dant amounts.  But there are many ways to con­trol cho­les­terol lev­els  nat­u­rally which I will address in another post.  The impor­tant thing to under­stand is that how much cho­les­terol you pro­duce is based on your genetic makeup moreso then the food that you eat. It is bro­ken down into two types.

LDL Cho­les­terol — Low Den­sity Lipopro­teins  — Too much of this type sig­nals the body has an exces­sive repair issue or not enough HDL to carry it away

HDL Cho­les­terol – High Den­sity Lipoproteins

Cho­les­terol is basi­cally a mech­a­nism by which the body forms inter­nal scabs while regen­er­at­ing arter­ies.  First comes the LDL and when enough has been applied, it is car­ried away by HDL.  How this mech­a­nism works is still under­go­ing study.  But suf­fice it to say that you can greatly aid this process by drink­ing organic Apple Cider Vine­gar at least once or twice daily for a month and then once or twice a week for main­te­nance.  Organic Apple Cider Vine­gar is aggres­sive and will attack oxi­dized cho­les­terol in min­utes of consumption.

The prob­lem is that if you eat the select com­mer­cial cuts of beef today, they are also packed full of growth hor­mones and sat­u­rated fats that have an adverse effect on the body.  This is why you want Organic Grass fed Beef.

Although approved by the FDA, how can a growth hor­mone that makes a cow grow from 80lbs to 2,000lbs in a year be good for human con­sump­tion?  I do see how it can be good for the com­mer­cial food indus­try who wants to sell meat as fast as they can grow it, but the impact it has on the health of the  human body is another  thing entirely.  Much of this is due to Food Indus­try Exec­u­tive who are being appointed to over­see our Food Safety pro­grams as polit­i­cal favors to Food Indus­try cam­paign contributions.

The answer to the ques­tion “Is Red Meat Good for You?” depends on three impor­tant factors.

What cut of beef are you eating?

How the cat­tle are fed and what are they  fed?

How is the the beef slaugh­tered and prepared?

I love beef, but I make sure it is organic grass fed beef.  I hope you do too. Your health is worth it.  Organic Grass Fed Beef is Ten­der, Deli­cious, Lean and full of nutrients.

We are the peo­ple in con­trol here. Vote with your Wal­let, because once they really start cloning were in trou­ble for sure.  Take the time to cook on Sun­day and spread your meals through the week.  One of the rea­sons peo­ple are tired is because of the junk they are try­ing to feed you.  Don’t buy pack­aged Ham­burger. Only buy the meat ground by your super­mar­ket or butcher.  Only buy local pro­duce. Talk to your friends.  We can stop this.  Get the word out !!!

Vote With Your Wallet