3 results for tag: slow meat

3 Reasons You Should Be Eating Lard

Despite what misguided opinion and conglomerate “food” manufacturers have tried to drill into our heads over the last 80 years or so, lard is actually far more healthy than any of the test-tube alternatives on grocery store shelves. In fact, our ancestors have been eating it for hundreds and hundreds of years. This beautiful fat was yet another casualty of the early 20th-century shift from locally-grown, organic food to industrialized food production. In the early 1900s, the Proctor & Gamble company figured out they could extract oil from cottonseed. Though it went quickly rancid and was highly unstable, the hydrogenation process allowed the ...

The Myth of Grass Fed Beef

Have you recently purchased an item just because it had "grass fed" printed on the label? Because of the advent of slick advertising and the abundance of food-related buzzwords, it can be difficult to navigate all the food options available to us and to make the best choices. So-called "grass-fed beef" is one such example of clever marketing surpassing food quality. Though the USDA recently (in January 2016) dropped the grass-fed label standard, its use even until that point was hit-or-miss, at best. A label that reads "grass-fed" doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. While all cattle need their mother's milk and grass for their first 6-12 ...

The Pastured Difference

Despite their occasionally humble station in the culinary world, chickens are really extraordinary. From their adaptation to thriving in virtually every climate, to the fact that they only need a small footprint to provide us with meat and eggs, chickens have been a food staple in cultures all around the world for centuries. One of the most remarkable things about our favorite fowl is that every single one of the more than 12 billion chickens populating the planet are each descended from a single species - the Red Junglefowl of southern Asia. From that humble beginning, there are now hundreds of varieties of chickens inhabiting every continent on ...