The Crunchy SuperMom Guide to Meat
Pristine: Animals ideally should be born on the farm or purchased from another well trusted farm. Animals are not given antibiotics, hormones, or vaccines and should always be on pasture (weather permitting).
- During the winter months when access to grass is impossible during winter months, high quality hay should be offered to ruminants and organically raised feed given to the other animals.
- Cows should be rotated on fresh pastures and be grass fed and finished. Other animals should also be rotationally grazed and/or free to explore their environment. Soil quality should be monitored to ensure that the grasses are of highest quality. Grazing land should be plentiful and the animals should all have ample room and access to food and water.
- The animals should all be slaughtered and processed on the farm or at a very well trusted slaughterhouse. This eliminates the potential of a processor “mixing up” a grass-fed cow with a feedlot raised cow. It also means that the healthy animal will not come into contact with other animals possibly carrying diseases and bacteria.
Clean: Organically raised animals that have access to pasture and are not given any antibiotics or hormones.
Avoid: Conventional, grain fed animals kept in confined feedlots/housing and given antibiotics and hormones.
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