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June 19, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
09:52
Does GRASS-FED actually mean anything?
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You know, I look at a lot of food labels because I'm testing foods in the lab now and releasing a lot of results publicly.
You've got to check out consumerwellness.org for some of the results that we're pushing out there right now.
But one of the things I'm noticing is a lot of people, even in the supplements industry, are using this phrase grass-fed.
Oh, it's grass-fed beef products or grass-fed bone broth or grass-fed steak at a restaurant.
You know, it's all grass-fed.
And this term, I'm not even sure if it's regulated by the USDA. I don't know.
But it's essentially meaningless.
Because if you think about it, grass-fed means, oh, we, at some point in the life of this cow, we tossed it a handful of grass.
Now, it doesn't say what else they fed it.
Hormones, antibiotics, insecticides, you know, who knows, steroids, whatever.
GMO corn, probably.
GMO soy, probably.
Or even chicken litter.
They feed cows chicken litter these days.
So, who knows?
Who knows what it's been fed?
But as long as some of that included a piece of grass, just one piece of grass, in the whole lifetime of the cow, they can say it was grass-fed.
Now, by the way, hay is grass-fed.
So if you feed the cow hay, which is dried grass, then that's also grass-fed.
And, of course, the hay is usually sprayed.
The fields that are baled to make hay are sprayed with various herbicides, pesticides, chemical nutrients from sometimes synthetic sources and so on.
These fields are inundated with a lot of chemicals.
But it's still grass, mind you.
It's grass with chemicals.
And so they can still say, grass-fed.
But they never say, chemical-fed, do they?
It's never like, grass with chemicals fed.
Beef.
You don't go to a restaurant and open up a menu and it's like, we feed our cows lots of chemicals and some grass.
No, because that doesn't sound good.
They like to use the phrase, grass-fed, to almost imply organic.
To create this image that there's these happy cows frolicking in fields of green or golden fields of wheat and barley and I don't know, whatever else that people might come to their minds on this.
But that's not it at all.
Most beef is, you know, factory beef.
It's cows imprisoned in a factory system in cruel cages, being fed genetically modified, chemically contaminated soy and corn products with an occasional piece of grass thrown in so that it qualifies as grass-fed.
I say, you know, the action item here is forget about grass-fed.
Go for certified organic.
If you're going to eat beef or you're going to eat steak or you're going to eat beef products like even bone broth, go with organic.
You know, we did testing.
We tested organic versus non-organic bone broth and we saw a big difference, a very noticeable difference.
The organic products that we tested, We're clear with undetectable levels of insecticides and pesticides and pharmacological chemicals and so on.
But the conventional products we tested all had traces of those things.
There was a very clear difference.
So if you're going to eat anything derived from a cow...
Then make sure it's certified organic, not grass-fed.
Anything can be grass-fed.
Chicken can be grass-fed.
Pigs can be grass-fed.
You just throw some grass at them.
It doesn't mean that they're pasture like they're free-range cows either.
The term grass-fed makes people think, oh, there's cows roaming around just with acres and acres of luscious green.
No, that's not the way it actually works.
I don't know if you've ever seen cattle ranches in Texas or Oklahoma or other places like that.
I live in Texas, so I see them quite frequently, and some of them are pretty sad, mostly just bare dirt.
No grass to be seen anywhere.
And then they just buy hay and feed them the hay, especially during the winter months, of course.
So that goes on a lot.
There's a lot of overgrazing and overcrowding, even when they have access to a field.
And these are the good conditions for cows.
The cruel conditions are in Greeley, Colorado.
Places like that, where you have these CAFOs, confined animal factory operations.
CAFOs.
And those are cruel.
That's why I really try to avoid anything that comes from non-organic beef.
And when I do get beef, I tend to get it from local farmers and ranchers that I know.
And I can drive by their fields and I can see, ah, yeah, there's a cow with a decent quality of life.
And eating grass, i.e., truly grass-fed, not BS claim grass-fed.
Know where your food comes from.
And I know that's difficult today because food comes from all over the world.
And if you live in a city, you can't really easily go out and inspect the farm fields.
So you can buy from a farmer's market.
That's one thing you can do.
You can join a CSA. You can grow a little bit of your own food.
You can barter with farmers or ranchers.
Maybe you want to trade something with them.
Maybe you produce something and you'd like to trade with them.
Reach out to them.
Trade something.
Do some barter.
You know?
Did you know that the IRS doesn't tax you on barter?
At least not to my knowledge.
I think you could just trade with people and you don't pay tax on that, right?
Here, I'll trade you some eggs.
You give me some beef.
And it's not a taxable transaction as far as I know.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe the IRS has a rule on that, but Not to my knowledge, I think there's a lot of barter that goes on just like that, even if there is a law.
What are you going to do?
You're going to trade somebody 12 eggs for a pound of beef and then send the IRS 30% of the beef for their tax cut?
I mean, it's insane.
So use barter when you can.
Know where your food comes from.
Produce a little bit of your own or as much as you can.
That's the answer.
That's how you do this.
That's why I have a ranch with egg-laying hens.
Lots of hens laying eggs, truly free-range, running around the ranch, eating scorpions, which is a good thing for them to do.
One time I saw a chicken eating a lizard.
Little lizards, they can catch them sometimes.
And of course they eat all the grasshoppers and other such insects.
They eat weeds.
They run around.
And I supplement their diet with some certified organic feed, by the way.
Make sure they're getting a lot of supplemental calcium that chickens need to lay eggs, otherwise the eggshells are too weak and they break.
But anyway, I produce chicken eggs and those eggs go into my food and they go into my dog's food.
I feed my dogs, believe it or not, one of my dogs, my larger dog, gets four eggs a day.
Yeah, four eggs a day on top of some high-quality kibble and some other things.
So when you produce your own food, you can then start to feed your animals and feed yourself and your family.
And you don't have to worry about deceptive labels like grass-fed because you know what that animal was eating because it's on your farm or it's on your neighbor's farm.
Local food is honest food.
Food from afar is usually dishonest food or tends to be more so.
If you don't know where it came from, if you can't track it, then you have no quality control over it.
You don't know what's in it.
You don't know how the animals were treated.
Nothing.
And this is why, by the way, this is why I refuse to sell bone broth products because I can't ascertain how those animals were treated and I'm not going to be in the business of selling products derived from animals that are treated inhumanely.
That is not something that I wish to be a part of.
No matter how much money is at stake.
I know there's a lot of other people in the industry that as long as they're making millions, they don't care which animals have to suffer for them to get rich.
But I reject that.
That's not my ethics.
So in any case, I hope you found this useful.
Check out more information at naturalnews.com.
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My podcast is at healthrangerreport.com.
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