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Many cattle are touted as being “grass-fed.” However, that doesn’t mean that they’re grass-finished. Most cows are sent off to a feed lot at about 6 months of age where they are “finished”. When they’re being finished, they are penned up eating nothing but cracked corn, antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. 

 

C.A.B.B. Farms knows that cows are meant to be in nature, where they eat nothing but grass. That’s why our Angus and American Aberdeen cows eat nothing but grass. Cows’ stomachs aren’t even designed to process corn, but it helps cows put on weight quickly, which makes them “market-ready” at a year old or less.

 

The only time C.A.B.B.’s cows eat anything other than grass is when they need winter supplements, like our farm-grown hay, balage, and alfalfa pellets. 

Only the Best for Our Grass Fed Cows

The cows at C.A.B.B. Farms never get growth hormones or steroids. Yes, this takes longer to get our cow market-ready, but it’s worth it. Our cows live a much more content life, just like us and they get to hang out with the family at the farm getting first class treatment.

Humane, Respectful Cattle Slaughter Process

Why does C.A.B.B. Farms pay so much attention to the slaughter process? It’s because we care for and respect each and every one of our animals. Our cows are processed by E.R. Boliantz Meats where once the cows leave our trailer to when they are slaughtered the entire process is gentle, caring, and quick.

 

We are ever grateful to each of the animals we raise for what they provide to us and families all throughout central Ohio, in fact each of our cattle are named. The respect we have for our cows makes a difference in the meat. The lack of stress, pain, and suffering means there is no build-up of adrenaline or other stress toxins in the meat.  

How Does Grass-Fed Compare to Grocery Store Beef?

Most meat in the grocery markets comes from Confined Animal Feeding Operations, where suppliers are challenged to produce large quantities of inexpensive meat. While the meat is cheaper and available year-round, there are many consequences of this type of farming that isn’t realized by local farmers like C.A.B.B. Farms, such as:  

  • Stressful or abusive environments for animals
  • Unnatural diets
  • Long, stressful travel from farm to slaughter
  • Unsanitary slaughter practices
  • Use of hormones, steroids, beta agonists, and sub-therapeutic antibiotics
  • Reduced tenderness and quality of meat
  • Questionable ingredients in ground beef, hamburger patties, or hotdogs
  • May contain water, beef flavoring, flavor enhancers, preservatives, etc.
  • Detrimental environmental effects and pollution

While in these meat factories, cows are typically fed an unnatural diet of grain, soy, and corn. Switching these high starch, low-fiber diets commonly cause disorders that make the cows uncomfortable and stressed. Cows are often also abused and mistreated by staff members.

In contrast, C.A.B.B. Farms’ cows spend their entire lives grazing on our 68-acre farm. They eat grass—the food that they were naturally intended to eat, in an environment where they are naturally found. Because of their low-stress lifestyle, our cows are rarely sick, and grow at a natural rate. The result is the most nutritious, best tasting beef for you and your family.

Grass-Fed is Better for the Environment

When properly managed, raising cows at a farm or on a pasture instead of at a factory farm is beneficial to the environment. Grass-fed diets require less fossil fuel use than a feedlot of dried corn and soy does. When on a farm, grazing cows do their own fertilizing and harvesting.

Weather permitting, the ground is covered with greens all year round, so it does an excellent job of harvesting solar energy and holding on to topsoil and moisture. Grazed pasture removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere more effectively than any land use, including forestland and un-grazed prairie, helping to slow global warming.

At a factory farm, the cows are either crowded into building or kept outside on barren land. Often times, their feed is shipped to them from other places. At factory farms, crops may be treated with fossil-fuel based fertilizers, sprayed with pesticides, and planted, tilled, and harvested with equipment run by non-renewable fossil fuels. The feed for factory farm cows is shipped to manufacturers where it is dried, pelleted, and then mixed with other ingredients before being shipped to the cows. All of this requires fossil fuels.

“Manure management” is another major difference between grass-fed and grain-fed cow farms. On a grass-fed farm, the cows will spread their manure evenly over the soil where it becomes its own natural source of organic fertilizer. This improves the quality of the grass, which increases the rate of weight gain on the animals – making it a closed, sustainable system.

On factory farms, the waste builds up in the feedlots and sheds where it taints the air and releases ammonia and other gasses to the ecosystem. These fumes can stress and sicken the animals and farm workers. To get rid of the waste, factory farms will ship it to nearby fields where it overloads the land with nutrients. The excess nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorous, pollute the soil and ground water and drain off into streams, rivers, and estuaries where it can create “dead zones” that threaten fish populations and watershed ecosystems.