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Tag Archives: meat
Ground Beef and Other Health Hazards
In the New York Times this week, there’s a sobering article about the risks of eating ground beef, or in other words, the failure of our food safety system. At the Times’ Well blog, there’s also a list of the top ten common food poisoning risks. The safest ground beef would be made from whole [...]
Retailers with Local Meat
For those of you who don’t want to buy a side of beef or can’t make it to the farmers’ market (or, as now, the market isn’t open), a few retailers have begun carrying locally-raised meat. You can find Hastings Farm grass-fed beef and lamb at Virginia’s Health Foods in Mobile and Ever’man Natural Foods [...]
Grass Fed Beef at Hastings Farm
Now is the time to order your “grass fed beef from Hastings Farm”:http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M16893 in Baldwin County. You need a freezer or several friends to split the approximately 90 pounds you’ll get from a quarter, at a cost of $540.
What Does Grass-Fed Beef Taste Like?
This week at the farmers market someone asked me what grass-fed beef tastes like. I’ve had it before from vendors at the farmers market in Bloomington, but frankly it’s been a few years so I’m not sure I can accurately summarize the differences between grass and grain-fed. And beyond that, I don’t eat a lot [...]
Putting Meat Back in Its Place
Via “Culinate”:http://www.culinate.com/, a link to New York Times food writer Mark Bittman’s latest, “Putting Meat Back in Its Place”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/dining/11mini.html?ex=1370923200&en=8ffda17d995d2228&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink, providing tips on how to eat less meat (as opposed to arguments in favor of). As he points out, many cultures regard meat as a luxury and use it as a “condiment or a treat,” where [...]
Bill McKibben on Grass-Fed Beef