Ideal Bite

You can also check out kolfoods.com for kosher and nonkosher (Good Fork Foods) organic, grass-fed beef and lamb, sold locally along the East Coast.

Let me first say that I love Ideal Bite and have gotten lots of good info from it. I do not agree w/this tip no matter if the meat is healthier and the animals live a better life they are still murdered in the end and humans should not be consuming other animal's flesh. There is nothing humane about murdering animals and eating their dismembered parts. Nothing! Besides, eating meat and other animal secretions has been proven to cause many civilization diseases like cancer and diabetes. I guess that is the price we humans pay for doing wrong to animals. I would like to see Ideal Bite support a more humane, healthy and compassionate way of life. Thank you for taking the time to read my email.

I agree with Micky. I have been reading Ideal Bite for a while and agree with most of the suggestions. However, this was not such a great one. In addition to MIcky's points, meat is an inefficient form of food. You would get more energy from the grain that most cows are raised on than you do from the meat because of the loss of energy each time you go up a level in the food chain. Plants can use 100% of the sun's energy, herbivores get much less than 100%, carnivores much less than herbivores. Meat, chicken and fish are not a wise use of our limited resources. The fact that grass fed is a bit better is not too impressive. It still uses a lot of water that is in limited supply.

Sorry, Jen, but if you take even a bite of a bison sausage, you're not a vegetarian. Please don't give those of us who really do forgo meat a bad name.

With grass fed, we have to ask ourselves, "What grass?" Did you know that thousands of cattle are allowed to roam across our national park lands like Rocky Mountin National Park. I saw them there myself, while on a backpacking trip. The cows trample the delicate ground and plants, eating everything in sight. They drive out native grazers who have to find other areas for pasture. Their foot wide cowflops litter the landscape, hardening into cement flops and killing the plants they land on, not to mention the effect of the alien germs and microbes that infect the native wildlife. Could grass fed possibly mean that they pastured on reclaimed rain forest land?

More options for locally-raised, grass-fed beef for Gallatin/Madison Counties in Montana: Montana Black www.montanablack.org Montana Meat LLC (Germann Ranch) 483 N Meadow Creek Rd McAllister, MT 59740 Contact Phone: (406) 682-7893

Cut out the middle man! Using land and resources to grow food directly for humans is infinitely more efficient and better for the planet than using the land to raise cattle. Yes, I have read omnivore's dilemma, and on the scale of impact it's certainly better than utilizing the mountains of surplus corn to feed cattle, but still a drain on the earth and not "good" by far. Please don't become a newsletter telling people good news about their bad habits! Yikes.

You can also use www.localharvest.org to find nearby farms supplying grass-fed beef. Whole Foods does not carry grass-fed beef. Also, be wary of the term "grass-finished" and "grass-fed." Grass-finished gives the cattle a few days on pasture right before they are slaughtered. The environmental benefits are not the same as grass-fed cattle. Grass-fed beef is great stuff, it helps support local farms, and it tastes delicious.

You can be green AND eat meat!! You are right, grass fed meat is MUCH better, and removes acres from pesticide ridden conventionally cropped ground. WE LOVE GRASS FED MEAT!! The health benefits are better, and the animals are raised much more naturally! Our animals are rotated to different pastures each week, and the land is NOT over grazed! If our land were overgrazed, we wouldn't be in business very long. Our animals are not Murdered! We make sure that they are harvested carefully, and humanely! We handle them softly, and slowly and let them be as free as they want to be! Especially, grass fed beef, they get to roam and graze wheneve they want! EAT BEEF!! BETTER YET, eat LOCAL, Grass-fed beef! Check out Local Harvest.com for a great beef source! Better yet, check out this Great GrassFed Beef Farm. http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M24259

I rarely eat red meat, but absolutely love chicken, could eat it every day, twice a day. My brother raised a few cows on his 90 acre horse farm, they roamed as they willed. When they were harvested, that roast was the toughest I had ever eaten. Maybe my sis in law didn't cook it long and slow enough.... I am sure you all "have a beef" about chicken, of course, I have seen on tv about how they are raised, we raised our own. Bought 100 chicks in the spring, chopped off their heads in the fall. Put them in the freezer for winter food.