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The flavor of grass-fed animals is capturing the attention of chefs on both coasts. Many small farmers, especially in the Northeast, which has the country's best grass, are pursuing grass-fed animals as a way to save family farms. Not so incidentally, they point to the human health and environmental advantages of animals raised this way. Many people who choose grass-fed meat do so for reasons that have more to do with health and the environment than they have to do with taste. For example, grass-fed animals are less likely to harbor deadly bacteria like E.coli 0157:H7. Their meat has fewer calories and less fat, and it has within it high levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Also, grass fed beef has twice as much beta-carotene than grain fed beef, thought to be helpful in preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer. Grass-fed animals also have more omega-3 fatty acids than corn-fed ones, and although the omega-3's differ from those in fish, they may still be beneficial. For those reasons among others, demand for grass-fed meat has increased far beyond this country's ability to produce it. There are three keys to the development of tender, tasty and juicy grass-fed animals, experts say: the quality of the grass; the process by which they are slaughtered and aged, and their genetic makeup. Sales of most grass-fed meat in the United States take place locally, and much of that meat is sold frozen. Still, as many in the business of raising it point out, grass-fed meat seems to be on the same trajectory as organic food once was. It will become more readily available as interest in its flavor and health benefits increase. About our Diamond Jubilee Cattle for Sale About | History
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There is an agricultural movement that is slowly gaining strength in small pockets of the United States and abroad, one that has turned away from the modern industrial feedlot, where animals are fed a steady diet of corn and antibiotics, in favor of the ancient methods of the herdsman, where cattle are raised on grass - more healthfully, supporters say - without hormones or routine use of antibiotics.