How is La Cense Beef different from conventional supermarket or mail-order beef?

La Cense's two main distinguishing qualities are: La Cense Beef is grass fed, grass finished and straight from the source. All La Cense Beef comes from cows raised exclusively on our ranch. The beef is shipped directly from our ranch to your door. Most conventional brands' beef does not come from one ranch, but from a consortium of ranches, often with sub-standard methods of quality control. La Cense Beef is able to administer stringent quality control, due the fact that we oversee our all operations from beginning to end on one ranch. All La Cense beef are grass fed, grass finished, which offers greater health benefits to you, the cow, and the land. Grass fed grass finished is the most healthy, natural, and stress-free way to raise cattle. On the other hand conventional beef producers feed their cows grains and corn. Cows are ruminant animals, which means they are designed to eat grass. Eating grain causes the cows to get sick, in turn causing the animal to be given high doses of ...  more