Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Does GRASS-FED actually mean anything?
Aired: 2018-06-19
Duration: 09:52


=== Grass-Fed Facts (09:24) ===

[00:00:02]  Mike Adams.
[00:00:03]  The amount of drugs that people take, it's absolutely shocking.
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[00:00:19]  And now, from naturalnews.com, here's Mike Adams.
[00:00:23]  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.
[00:00:29]  You've got to check out consumerwellness.org for some of the results that we're pushing out there right now.
[00:00:35]  But one of the things I'm noticing is a lot of people, even in the supplements industry, are using this phrase grass-fed.
[00:00:42]  Oh, it's grass-fed beef products or grass-fed bone broth or grass-fed steak at a restaurant.
[00:00:50]  You know, it's all grass-fed.
[00:00:52]  And this term, I'm not even sure if it's regulated by the USDA. I don't know.
[00:00:58]  But it's essentially meaningless.
[00:01:00]  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.
[00:01:08]  Now, it doesn't say what else they fed it.
[00:01:12]  Hormones, antibiotics, insecticides, you know, who knows, steroids, whatever.
[00:01:21]  GMO corn, probably.
[00:01:23]  GMO soy, probably.
[00:01:25]  Or even chicken litter.
[00:01:27]  They feed cows chicken litter these days.
[00:01:31]  So, who knows?
[00:01:33]  Who knows what it's been fed?
[00:01:34]  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.
[00:01:44]  Now, by the way, hay is grass-fed.
[00:01:48]  So if you feed the cow hay, which is dried grass, then that's also grass-fed.
[00:01:55]  And, of course, the hay is usually sprayed.
[00:01:58]  The fields that are baled to make hay are sprayed with various herbicides, pesticides, chemical nutrients from sometimes synthetic sources and so on.
[00:02:10]  These fields are inundated with a lot of chemicals.
[00:02:14]  But it's still grass, mind you.
[00:02:16]  It's grass with chemicals.
[00:02:18]  And so they can still say, grass-fed.
[00:02:21]  But they never say, chemical-fed, do they?
[00:02:25]  It's never like, grass with chemicals fed.
[00:02:28]  Beef.
[00:02:29]  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.
[00:02:35]  No, because that doesn't sound good.
[00:02:37]  They like to use the phrase, grass-fed, to almost imply organic.
[00:02:42]  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.
[00:02:58]  But that's not it at all.
[00:03:01]  Most beef is, you know, factory beef.
[00:03:05]  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.
[00:03:23]  I say, you know, the action item here is forget about grass-fed.
[00:03:29]  Go for certified organic.
[00:03:32]  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.
[00:03:40]  You know, we did testing.
[00:03:42]  We tested organic versus non-organic bone broth and we saw a big difference, a very noticeable difference.
[00:03:49]  The organic products that we tested, We're clear with undetectable levels of insecticides and pesticides and pharmacological chemicals and so on.
[00:03:58]  But the conventional products we tested all had traces of those things.
[00:04:02]  There was a very clear difference.
[00:04:05]  So if you're going to eat anything derived from a cow...
[00:04:10]  Then make sure it's certified organic, not grass-fed.
[00:04:15]  Anything can be grass-fed.
[00:04:17]  Chicken can be grass-fed.
[00:04:18]  Pigs can be grass-fed.
[00:04:20]  You just throw some grass at them.
[00:04:22]  It doesn't mean that they're pasture like they're free-range cows either.
[00:04:29]  The term grass-fed makes people think, oh, there's cows roaming around just with acres and acres of luscious green.
[00:04:35]  No, that's not the way it actually works.
[00:04:37]  I don't know if you've ever seen cattle ranches in Texas or Oklahoma or other places like that.
[00:04:43]  I live in Texas, so I see them quite frequently, and some of them are pretty sad, mostly just bare dirt.
[00:04:50]  No grass to be seen anywhere.
[00:04:52]  And then they just buy hay and feed them the hay, especially during the winter months, of course.
[00:04:57]  So that goes on a lot.
[00:04:59]  There's a lot of overgrazing and overcrowding, even when they have access to a field.
[00:05:04]  And these are the good conditions for cows.
[00:05:07]  The cruel conditions are in Greeley, Colorado.
[00:05:11]  Places like that, where you have these CAFOs, confined animal factory operations.
[00:05:17]  CAFOs.
[00:05:18]  And those are cruel.
[00:05:20]  That's why I really try to avoid anything that comes from non-organic beef.
[00:05:27]  And when I do get beef, I tend to get it from local farmers and ranchers that I know.
[00:05:33]  And I can drive by their fields and I can see, ah, yeah, there's a cow with a decent quality of life.
[00:05:39]  And eating grass, i.e., truly grass-fed, not BS claim grass-fed.
[00:05:47]  Know where your food comes from.
[00:05:48]  And I know that's difficult today because food comes from all over the world.
[00:05:53]  And if you live in a city, you can't really easily go out and inspect the farm fields.
[00:06:00]  So you can buy from a farmer's market.
[00:06:02]  That's one thing you can do.
[00:06:04]  You can join a CSA. You can grow a little bit of your own food.
[00:06:09]  You can barter with farmers or ranchers.
[00:06:14]  Maybe you want to trade something with them.
[00:06:15]  Maybe you produce something and you'd like to trade with them.
[00:06:19]  Reach out to them.
[00:06:20]  Trade something.
[00:06:21]  Do some barter.
[00:06:22]  You know?
[00:06:23]  Did you know that the IRS doesn't tax you on barter?
[00:06:27]  At least not to my knowledge.
[00:06:29]  I think you could just trade with people and you don't pay tax on that, right?
[00:06:33]  Here, I'll trade you some eggs.
[00:06:34]  You give me some beef.
[00:06:36]  And it's not a taxable transaction as far as I know.
[00:06:40]  I don't know.
[00:06:40]  Maybe I'm wrong.
[00:06:41]  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.
[00:06:52]  What are you going to do?
[00:06:53]  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?
[00:07:02]  I mean, it's insane.
[00:07:03]  So use barter when you can.
[00:07:05]  Know where your food comes from.
[00:07:07]  Produce a little bit of your own or as much as you can.
[00:07:11]  That's the answer.
[00:07:13]  That's how you do this.
[00:07:14]  That's why I have a ranch with egg-laying hens.
[00:07:19]  Lots of hens laying eggs, truly free-range, running around the ranch, eating scorpions, which is a good thing for them to do.
[00:07:28]  One time I saw a chicken eating a lizard.
[00:07:31]  Little lizards, they can catch them sometimes.
[00:07:33]  And of course they eat all the grasshoppers and other such insects.
[00:07:37]  They eat weeds.
[00:07:39]  They run around.
[00:07:41]  And I supplement their diet with some certified organic feed, by the way.
[00:07:45]  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.
[00:07:53]  But anyway, I produce chicken eggs and those eggs go into my food and they go into my dog's food.
[00:08:01]  I feed my dogs, believe it or not, one of my dogs, my larger dog, gets four eggs a day.
[00:08:09]  Yeah, four eggs a day on top of some high-quality kibble and some other things.
[00:08:14]  So when you produce your own food, you can then start to feed your animals and feed yourself and your family.
[00:08:20]  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.
[00:08:30]  Local food is honest food.
[00:08:33]  Food from afar is usually dishonest food or tends to be more so.
[00:08:39]  If you don't know where it came from, if you can't track it, then you have no quality control over it.
[00:08:45]  You don't know what's in it.
[00:08:46]  You don't know how the animals were treated.
[00:08:48]  Nothing.
[00:08:49]  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.
[00:09:04]  That is not something that I wish to be a part of.
[00:09:07]  No matter how much money is at stake.
[00:09:09]  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.

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