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Healthy Grass Fed Beef Review
Just a test post
As if we all didn't have other things to do.
Just wanted to test this out with Scribe-Fire on Chrome so I could update this content as needed.
Again, this is only a test. We'll now return you to your regularly-scheduled hum-drum.
There's a lot of misinformation out there about farming in general and beef in particular. We keep our Missouri beef healthy and they can help you, too.
All beef isn't the same. The quality of the beef changes not just from country to country, but from farm to farm and year to year. No two animals are identical and can't be raised that way. Each requires care to ensure they stay the healthiest they possibly can, being well-fed and watered even when Mother Nature decides a drought is due.
So this notion of a "factory farm" can't be further from the truth. I'm sure you've heard the horror stories or seen the videos. Truth is, there are bad apples in every barrel. And just because there is a handful of crooked accountants or shifty CEO's of corporations doesn't mean that all of them are that way. (The jury is still out on lawyers, politicians, and used car salespeople...) But animals are live things and cannot be run on any assembly line, any more than a mill can churn out puppies. They have to be individually cared for.
Beef is as healthy as you know where it came from, what went in it, and how it was processed. The meat you get from supermarkets is packaged to look as good as possible, right down to the colors of the packaging and what color lights they use. Doesn't mean it is going to make you fat or lean or somewhere in between.
And all we can really testify to is how our own cattle are treated, what they are fed, and what condition they were in as we sent them to be processed.
Guest Article - by Dr. Robert C. WorstellOf course, this is how the self-help industry fits the definition of a scam: (whine) "I didn't get what I expected (or was sold)." And while reputable distributors honor repayments quickly, it still doesn't help that you didn't get what you wanted.
Because self help is supposed to do something for you. Something you can apply yourself to your self and improve in some way.
It doesn't work when you aren't able to change what you had your hopes on - or had all your attention tied up in.
And that is the same problem that enlightenment has. What works for one guru doesn't necessarily work for his followers. So many of these guys keep talking and writing and videoing in the hope that something they say will resonate and strike a chord so that reader or listener can then piece together their own path "up the mountain".
The problem, as usual, lies within ourselves, not external to us.
Most of these self-help authors and guru's only fail not in making themselves rich, but in helping you to do so. And that is why they sometimes get the label scammer. Not because what they say doesn't work - it just doesn't work for everyone.
And the people who never figure this out can fill libraries with the books and CD's or DVD's that they buy on a regular basis looking for the "one way" which will set them free.
Unfortunately, that "one way" is already inside them. And it's as individual and specific as every person out there. For if we were all the same, it would be just too easy for any or all of us to get clear on what we really want and need - and manifest or attract these at will.
But it isn't that easy. Because no one is around to tell you exactly what you should be doing next on your own path to enlightenment.
Many find that unless they continue to attend these various seminars, or plug in their audio CD's, or listen regularly to downloaded MP3's, that they will lose what they already gained and "backslide".
Of course, this is just more hogwash, rubbish, junk, you name it.
Look - the gains you've made are yours forever. Whatever you have found already that works for you will continue to work for you from here on out. Nothing can change that effectiveness except you - by changing your own faith in the tools you found.
And faith, as Napoleon Hill covers, is internally created. No one can take your faith away from you - except you.
The bottom line to all self-help and personal improvement material is that you are invited to restore your own personal faith in your self.
Of course, we've all been taught many different ways to not do this - to simply continue in battering our ways through life, despite all obstacles thrown in our way. And we constantly evaluate for others and defend ourselves from potential attacks...
But that whole scenario I just described is a lie. None of that really exists. All that fiction we've swallowed is really designed to limit our own beliefs in ourselves and those around us so that we won't ever trust any truly workable technique that we encounter. Yes, it's all a conspiracy to keep you down. Feel better now?
Of course, I can say this because I've been studying this stuff most of my life. And most intensively over the past decade. Yes, I've collected a small library and published even more of these so others could find them. And I've spent most of that life being "scammed" by various organizations and individuals when I found that their stuff "didn't work."
The breakthrough I had recently - which is what I'm sharing with you today - is that there is just no "one size fits all" self-help system which works for every individual. Again, it's due to us being "individuals".
So I'll tell you that my own way of getting enlightened went through many self help authors, such as Hill above, Wallace Wattles, Thomas Troward, Charles F. Haanel, Dorothea Brande, Earl Nightingale - and many others. And I got a little (or great) something from each of one. And these lead to Lester Levenson and more recently to Marshall Rosenburg.
Somewhere along the line, I got enlightened. And as Alan Watts described, simply went back to what I was doing before. I just stepped back over that thin line and kept writing and blogging and making videos.
But that was my own route, my own path. It was simple once I found it, but what I did isn't the same thing you will have to do for yourself.
The funny part is, you'll find as you look around (carefully and honestly) that there are a great deal more people who have found and stepped over that thin line of enlightenment than you may have ever considered. And they're there - all in plain sight. Just like most of these self-help "secrets". You only have to consider that you can find them and either start looking or start listening.
It's my humble opinion that you are going to have to tailor your own traveling suit. You are going to have to cobble your own shoes to do that walking. All the materials and tools are sitting there - just waiting for you to do so.
And that is my gift to you. Enjoy your life and start living it for real. Because just as everything you need to improve your own life is sitting out there right in front of you - it is just as true that only you will be able to pick from that smorgasbord of working philosophies and systems to build your own path that you need to walk.
One size doesn't fit all - but when you make your own, it's tailored just for your own success.
Good Hunting!
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Rev. Dr. Robert C. Worstell, M.Msc, MBA, PhD is an independent researcher and the prolific author of several self-help and self-improvement books. Worstell lives on a working farm in rural Missouri and is continually involved in research to improve the quality of life. He has spent over 35 years researching the human condition through personal studies of counseling, education, and self-improvement.Dr. Worstell is available for lectures, presentation, or interviews. A recent author interview is found as linked. An extensive (but incomplete) collection of his many blogs and online materials can be found at his Google Profile. Contact him via his blogs - or through his publishing company, Midwest Journal Press.
Recent published works:
The Dreamer Dreamed
released 28 Nov 2010
Additional information and excerpt available here.
Does the dreamer dream? Or is the dreamer dreamed? Some hold that life is a dream and you awake to yet another. In this novel, a young man finds people trying to control his dreams - and his life. However, all are subject to the same rules they seek to break...
This story combines elements of runaway sub-tropic adventure with advanced technology, as well as metaphysical super-realities, all rolled into a fast-paced narrative to keep you riveted in fascinated reading.
Robert C. Worstell is more widely known for his many non-fiction books and publications based on his life-long research into self-help. This New Age novel is his latest work and continues explorations into the human condition.
Available in paperback, PDF, and ebook.
Freedom Is - (period.)
released 21 May 2010
Online course available on these pages.
Here's a new idea for you: All the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace you want can already be found within you. The only things keeping these from showing up are the mental habits you have. And it's just too easy to get rid of these. If you don't have all the wealth, abundance, loving relationships, good health, or anything else you want in your life, you don't have to look further than your own thoughts.
But these are easy to solve. You can simply learn to control and quiet your own mind.
Follow these authors: Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Earl Nightingale, Max Freedom Long, Lester Levenson - as they show you how simple it is to get all these thoughts quieted. And then everything else you could possibly want simply starts showing up in your life!
For the first time, these teachers' secrets have been assembled for your use. Will you take the offered hand?
Available in paperback.
Go Thunk Yourself, Revisited
released 26 March 2010
Through all the books I've studied and lectures listened to - as well as my own research and tests down this line — it has become very clear to me that we each already have all the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace we could ever want. It's just sitting there waiting for us to recognize its presence in our nature. Just waiting for us to let our own light shine.
That's the secret people have been looking for all this time, the one which the self-help guru's will sell you unlimited books, CD's, video's, and personal consultation to help you find. But I think, like Dorothy with her slippers, you eventually find that you've had the solution all along. And also like Dorothy, you have to make the journey before you’ll believe it’s that simple.
The trick is this one, simple datum: The only things holding you back are just those limits you have accepted. This book contains the extremely simple methods to letting your own Freedom, Peace and Happiness shine out to help your dreams become reality.
Available in paperback.
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Welcome to these week’s review of new pasture finished meat blog posts.
I’ve been at work to find this series so I can forward it with you.
Amazing that there is a great deal more material here than I’ve seen previously. Must be that average folks are investigating more kinds of heart-healthy meals.
And I’ve also seen more websites coming forward on the web to match this demand.
certainly had some tall grass this year.)
When a mob is profitable – grazing because they like it that way.
When I last posted about this hot topic of grass fed beef, I mainly outlined the economics of it and how to lower costs and raise profits by:
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Getting off the corn standard and switching to grass-fed beef cattle production,
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Figuring out how to direct-market your beef to local (big-city) clients who prefer to pay extra for higher-quality food,
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Going off feeding hay in the winter by mob grazing (intensively-managed grazing).
And I said I was going to have to do some homework in this last area. So I’ve begun.
Hamburger America: Fatbelly Burgers, VERY local beef
by Hamburger America
Shane rolls fresh balls of local grass-fed beef and uses the griddle-smash method to make his burgers. “That griddle is at 500 degrees,” Shane told me after I had finished my usual volley of questions. After one bite of my 1/4 pound …
Hamburger America – http://hamburgeramerica.blogspot.com/
Simple Delicious Lamb Loin
by Hank Will, Editor
Hank has a delicious recipe for whole boneless grassfed lamb loin.
The Daily Commute – http://www.grit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?blog
Grass-Fed Bison Burgers | The Kitchen Of A Runner
by Matt
Mmmm these were tasty! If you haven’t tried Bison, I highly recommend it! It is really tasty, but so good for you: Health Benefits Grass-fed Bison provides.
The Kitchen Of A Runner – http://www.thekitchenofarunner.com/
Making Missouri Mob Grazing pay – a laundry list
While these aren’t commodity Angus, they are some of the best grass-fed beef cattle you can have – but this post today is about mob grazing, not selecting the best genetics for your cattle. That’s another subject I’ll weigh in on at some time – how we’ve gone away from the healthier, more efficient animals farmers used to breed. But the college guys are starting to figure this out with all their number crunching…
Chefs cook up a recipe for success
by WCAX
… where can I get this grass-fed pork that you featured on the menu that tasted so great, or where I can get these eggs, where can I get these greens,” …
Get your agenda off my plate!
by Louisville Mojo (blog)
More protein, less protein, free-range, whole grain, vegan, vegetarian, freetarian, organic, grass-fed, cage-free, local, low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie, …
Bonnie’s Blog With Bonnie & Steve Minsky: Locallly grown food up 20%
by nutrocon
Common terms are homestead, organic, natural, sustainably grown, free-range and grass-fed, air-cooled poultry, grown from heirloom seeds or produced with respect for the land, animals, and workers. Regardless of the terminology, …
Bonnie’s Blog With Bonnie & Steve Minsky – http://nutritionalconcepts.blogspot.com/
How grass fed beef with mob grazing cut greenhouse gases
Now, this takes into account the paradigm that you believe (or tolerate) the idea that some gases can create a “greenhouse effect” and add or detract from global temperatures. Jury is still out – and has been for some time. Another discussion, another time…
Buying grass fed beef from the farmer
RE: Buying grass fed beef from the farmer. Make sure you have a really good freezer and maybe a generator in case the power goes out! BTW I agree you should try the meat first, but I have been buying local grassfed/grass finished beef …
Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Discussion… – http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/
HWFC Special Events: Food for Thought: No Impact Man
by Mariah
Farmer and the Grill and The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook. Hayes works with her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in Schoharie County, NY, where they raise grassfed beef and lamb and pastured pork and poultry. Hayes’ newest …
HWFC Special Events – http://hwfc-special-events.blogspot.com/
Ask MNN: Is there environmentally friendly milk?
by The Olympian
… is buying organic milk, which promises to the consumer that the cows that are giving the milk don’t get any hormones or antibiotics and are grass-fed. …
It’s a beautiful life!: Grass Fed and Finished Pasture Raised Gal!
by Beth
And I am going to buy grass fed and finished beef, and pasture raised chicken and pork. I also hope to not purchase food with a ton of preservatives in it. I recently read that the author Michael Pollan said don’t eat anything that …
It’s a beautiful life! – http://mcbarker.blogspot.com/
Nothing like a juicy steak, cooked to order.
Unfortunately, except for some weekends, who has the time on our busy schedules to cook steak just the way we like it? And with this economy - how are you going to afford a restaurant that will cook grass-fed steak for you? (Most don't even know there's a difference between grain-fed and natural, pasture-finished beef!)
A crock pot is our best remedy for cooking this lean beef just the way we like it, while also keeping the moisture and tenderness in. Set it up in the morning to cook, come home at night and enjoy!
I was looking around for recipes recently and came across two recipes for scrumptious crock-pot steak.
Have fun with these:
CROCKPOT BEEF STROGANOFF IIITrim all excess fat (if you can find any) from steak and cut meat into 3 inch strips about 1/2 inch wide.
- 3 lb. beef round steak, 1/2 inch thick
- 1/2 c. flour
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. pepper
- 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
- 2 med. onions, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 2 (4 oz. each) cans sliced mushrooms, drained or 1/2 lb. mushrooms, sliced
- 1 (10 1/2 oz.) can condensed beef broth
- 1/4 c. dry white wine (optional)
- 1 1/2 c. sour cream
- 1/4 c. flour
Combine 1/2 cup flour, the salt, pepper and dry mustard; toss with steak strips to coat thoroughly. Place coated steak strips in crock pot; stir in onion rings and mushrooms. Add beef broth and wine; stir well. Cover and cook on low setting for 8- 10 hours. Before serving, combine sour cream with 1/4 cup flour; stir into crock pot. Serve stroganoff over rice or noodles.
CROCKPOT BRACIOLE-Trim all excess fat (if you can find any) from round steak. Cut into 8 evenly shaped pieces. Pound steak pieces between waxed paper until very thin and easy to roll. In skillet, lightly brown sausage. Drain well and combine with parsley, 1/2 teaspoon oregano, garlic, onion, and salt; mix well. Spread each steak with 2 to 3 tablespoons of sausage mixture. Roll up steaks and tie. Stack steak rolls in crock pot. Combine tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, and 1 teaspoon oregano; pour over rolls. Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours. Serve steak rolls with sauce.
- 2 1/2 pounds Round steak
- 1/4 to 1/2" thick 1/2 pound Bulk Italian sausage
- 1 tablespoon Dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon Leaf oregano
- 2 cloves Garlic -- minced
- 1 large Onion -- finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 can Italian style tomatoes -- 16 0z
- 1 can tomato paste -- (6 oz)
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Leaf oregano
- 10 large Tomatoes or 2 28 oz cans tomatoes
- 5 cloves Garlic -- chopped
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons Salt
- 2 large Onions -- chopped
- 1 tablespoon Flour
- 1 tablespoon Vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon Oregano
- 1 teaspoon Thyme
- 1 tablespoon Wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
-SAUCE: Place all ingredients except flour, oil, and vinegar in crock-pot; stir well. Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours. Remove cover and turn to high setting for the last hour to reduce excess moisture. Before removing sauce from crock pot, stir in flour, oil, and vinegar. Allow to cool. Pour 3 cups of sauce at a time into blender container; blend until smooth.
From the folks at La Cense - the premier Montana grass-fed beef folks - I've found this marvelous recipe for steak. So set aside some time to really revel in luxury - maybe one of those longer holidays coming up...
Steakhouse-Style Bone in Tenderloin Filet
by Ulla Kjarval
Ingredients
- - 2 12oz La Cense Bone-In Tenderloin Filets
- - Salt and Pepper to Taste
- - Olive oil to cover steak
Instructions
Salt and pepper the steak and rub with a bit of olive oil. You want to bring the steaks to room temperature so let them sit for half an hour before you broil them. Preheat the broiler for 15 minutes. You will need to broil the steaks for about 5 minutes on each side, but broilers vary greatly so use your discretion. This is a perfect dinner for two. Serve with creamed spinach and oven-fried potatoes. Enjoy!
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While I raise my own grass-fed beef here in Missouri, I suggest you try a vendor such as La Cense Beef if you want to sample some truly wonderful, Montana-raised grass fed beef.
Glad to be here among those who know they are a bit "tetched" - as opposed to those who "know" they aren't...
My fascination is growing grass fed beef - just as Nature has done it since before recorded history. (We're just more "civilized" about it.
And an interesting set of posts from another site:
Grass Fed Beef Cattle
Here's some books you might be interested in (my other hobby):
- An Online Sunshine Plan
- Genius
- Get Your Self Scam Free!
- Go Thunk Yourself!
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Master Key System
- On Success
- Science of Getting Rich
- The Complete Thomas Troward Collection
- The Secret Science Behind Miracles
- Think and Grow Rich
