On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:36:28 -0800 (PST), Bryan
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> On Nov 22, 10:20*am, sf > wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:02:26 -0500, Jim Elbrecht >
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> > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:58:02 +1100, "Farm1" >
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> > > >"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
> > > b.com...
> > > >> On 11/20/2012 8:23 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
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> > > >>> Their grass-fed New Zealand cheddar cheese is delicious, healthful, and
> > > >>> a bargain -
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> > > >> I'm trying to picture a big wheel of cheese grazing in a New Zealand
> > > >> pasture.
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> > > >I'm trying to picture a diary cow grazing on something other than grass.
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> > > In this neck of the woods 'grass' is green, and 'hay' is brown. * *And
> > > we used to brag about feeding our cattle grain.
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> > I remember those days... Kansas corn fed beef was the epitome of
> > goodness.
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> > > I don't know if it is like those 'uncaged chickens' we hear about.
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> > We have a farm up North that raises cattle and free range chickens. *I
> > like the way they operate. *The chickens are in the cow pasture and
> > their coop is moved every few days. *This isn't the same farm, but
> > it's the same method.http://www.horseandbuggyproduce.com/...res/egg-shares
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> > > wonder if giving a bovine a blade of fresh grass just before
> > > dispatching him/her counts as 'grass fed'.
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> > What's the point? *They're pasture raised most of their lives and then
> > finished in a feed lot. *If they weren't kept in such crowded,
> > horrible conditions for so long and fed pure grain instead of that
> > stuff filled with steroids and ground up cow parts, no one would be
> > objecting because grain finished beef is darned tasty.
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> Even being fed pure grain for very long is bad. The ideal is grass
> fed, grain finished, but the finishing should ideally last only a week
> or two. When I was a child, the standard was 3 weeks, but after about
> a week of grain feeding, cattle are starting to get stressed, as the
> pH in their rumens drops.
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Can you imagine the cost involved in continual grain feeding? At the
most, they would have been supplemented with alfalfa while being
pastured, but I doubt it. I don't know how long they were kept on
feed lots back in the day. Couldn't have been very long or it would
have been eaten up the profits.

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