Is Grass-fed beef safe from BSE/Mad Cow Disease?
Yes. We guarantee it. We know each of our animals personally throughout their lives, and we know they are in perfect health when we harvest them. We can ensure their health for a number of reasons: • Our animals never have access to contaminated animal by-product feed since they are grass-fed throughout their lives. Also, because animal by-products in feed have been banned in the U.S. since 1997, you should know even supermarket meat is unlikely to be contaminated. • We raise our animals from the day they are born. We ensure that they are never exposed to any sort of animal contaminants during their lifetimes, and that only our animals are isolated during the entire harvest and fabrication process. • We make our hamburger meat from whole muscles, which are entirely safe. In addition, our processor does not use machinery that scrapes every last piece of meat from the spinal area. This practice is only in place in industrial meat processing plants that harvest thousands of animals every
YES! Here’s why: 1. Our animals have had no access to contaminated animal by-product feed in any shape or form. For that matter, animal by-products of bonemeal and meat scrapes have been banned since 1997. Pasture finishing on high quality forage and management eliminates the risk. 2. We simply know each animal personally and they are in perfect health at the point of harvest. Our animals are segregated at harvest and kept separate through the entire harvest and fabrication process. Plus we know their life history. We either raise the animal from the newborn calf or work with 4 other ranchers that have the same protocol we use with our own stock. These relationships are three years and growing. No blood products are given to young calves as has been mentioned in media reports! 3. We make hamburger from whole muscles, which are safe. Our processor does not own the type of machine that scrapes every last piece of meat from the spinal area. This only takes place in the very largest of mea
