RE: Re: grass fed?

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It's the alfalfa fed (and they sometimes call this " grass fed " .... so beware)

that makes it taste bad/like rabbit or something worse...thought you would want

to know. True....Grass fed is usually very sweet and good tasting and since

they are not fattened with corn and eat little if any alfalfa...before

slaughter...and due to eating what steer where intended to eat in nature (not

grain) they are in balance with the Omega 3 to Omega 6! Beware...BUT again

beware....some grass fed are fattened on corn before slaughter........and this

ruins the good omega 3's when they do this! My father in law use to raise

steer, this is why I know. ASK Many QUESTIONS...also some supplement with

soy....YIKES! This truly screws the meat up!

Antoinette (SCD diet entire family day 28)

RE: Re: grass fed?

I was looking into this myself. It has a better Omega 3 to Omega 6

ratio, so is considered healthier. But I have also heard it can be very

hard to get a good tasting grassfed meat.

I buy a hind quarter of beef from a local farmer. I asked him about

grass fed and he basically said the same thing regarding taste and

texture. What he does is fully grass feeds the cattle up until the last

2 months before slaughter, that is when you want fast growth for tender

meat. The grains he adds are mostly organic, but not 100%. No hormones,

antiobiotics, etc. They are well cared for animals on a nice clean farm.

I bought a small-med size chest freezer that will hold a hind quarter of

beef plus a side or pork. I also buy a whole lamb. You can't beat the

price, my beef averages $3/lb and lots of nice T-bone, porterhouse and

tenderloin steaks are included in the hind quarter.

If you can hunt around for a relatively local farmer that sells and

raises meat this way, it is well worth it. Check out your local

cooperative extension office, they may be able to point you to a farmer.

Becky

mom to Noah (6, HFA) and (3, NT)

SCD 2 weeks

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.infohttp://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/\

>

and

http://www.pecanbread.comhttp://www.pecanbread.com/>

[Guest guest]

It's the alfalfa fed (and they sometimes call this " grass fed " .... so beware)

that makes it taste bad/like rabbit or something worse...thought you would want

to know. True....Grass fed is usually very sweet and good tasting and since

they are not fattened with corn and eat little if any alfalfa...before

slaughter...and due to eating what steer where intended to eat in nature (not

grain) they are in balance with the Omega 3 to Omega 6! Beware...BUT again

beware....some grass fed are fattened on corn before slaughter........and this

ruins the good omega 3's when they do this! My father in law use to raise

steer, this is why I know. ASK Many QUESTIONS...also some supplement with

soy....YIKES! This truly screws the meat up!

Antoinette (SCD diet entire family day 28)

RE: Re: grass fed?

I was looking into this myself. It has a better Omega 3 to Omega 6

ratio, so is considered healthier. But I have also heard it can be very

hard to get a good tasting grassfed meat.

I buy a hind quarter of beef from a local farmer. I asked him about

grass fed and he basically said the same thing regarding taste and

texture. What he does is fully grass feeds the cattle up until the last

2 months before slaughter, that is when you want fast growth for tender

meat. The grains he adds are mostly organic, but not 100%. No hormones,

antiobiotics, etc. They are well cared for animals on a nice clean farm.

I bought a small-med size chest freezer that will hold a hind quarter of

beef plus a side or pork. I also buy a whole lamb. You can't beat the

price, my beef averages $3/lb and lots of nice T-bone, porterhouse and

tenderloin steaks are included in the hind quarter.

If you can hunt around for a relatively local farmer that sells and

raises meat this way, it is well worth it. Check out your local

cooperative extension office, they may be able to point you to a farmer.

Becky

mom to Noah (6, HFA) and (3, NT)

SCD 2 weeks

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.infohttp://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/\

>

and

http://www.pecanbread.comhttp://www.pecanbread.com/>

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I don't know why, but my post did not show up in email. Here goes again:)

Summer

I buy most of my pasture fed meat from local farms or through my co-op. Cows

have not developed stomachs able to digest grains well, and those fed grains,

even with heavy vitamin/mineral supplementation, are unable to digest and

assimilate all their nurtients....because they develop leaky gut. This also

leads to bacteria overgrowth and additional toxins stored in tissue and muscle.

Beef naturally has high amounts of omega 3, with a smaller omega 6 ratio. In

the commercial meat industry, the opposite is true, the beef has negligent

amounts of omega 3's and high amounts of omega 6, in addition to the toxin

buildup.

Pasture raised, organic meat tastes better, has a great flavor, and you will

find that going back to grain fed meat, tastewise, is very hard.

Beware some people who may pass of meat as pastured, when they are really only

free range but being offered grains. Cows will forgo the pasture for grain

treats, like my autistic son will forgo whole foods for taco bell. I always

check out my food sources throughly, even if store bought.

Milk and meat from 100% pastured animals are less likely to carry salmonella,

ecoli and other subsequent infections that infect people, because like the

principles of SCD, they have healthy gut and healthy gut flora!

If you live in my state of Washington, I can hook you up with 1/4 pasture,

organic well cared for cow that is being raised for me and some friends, $2 a

pound. It will be ready this october/november.

Also, if you live in the co-oping area for my co-op www.azurestandard.com,

which delivers for free at drop points all along northern california, oregon,

washington, alasks, parts of idaho and montana, you can get the famous pastured

Piedmontese beef, an old breed of cattle from Italy that, according to the USDA

study, shows the highest CLA present. Polyunsaturated fat, like in healthy

cattle, carry the essential fatty acids that our bodies can not produce. In

fact, cholesterol lebels of Piedmontese are less than that of store bought beef.

Pastured animals are also less likely to have high levels of cadmium and

arsenic in their bodies, with the exception of land areas being treated with

chemical fertilizers. Feeds, if not organic, often are supplemented with

cadmium, as it puts weight on cattle, and there are those that extropolate,

since cadmium, a heavy metal toxin, is hard pressed to leave the body, it is a

fattening element for humans.

These are just barely scraping a few reasons why pastured animals can be

healthier and part of a healing diet and/or a healthy diet. I know quite a few

of my fellow members on the SCD websites only eat pastured meat.

One last note, free range animals tend to get copious amounts of natural

sunlight, leading to the formation of strong bones and healthy organs, which

translates into healthy meats. Not only are the hormones fed to animals under

suspicion as endocrine disruptors, but the hormones produced by not so healthy

animals tend to build up, especially with taxed liver capability and leaky gut.

The organs have to work too hard. Natural sunlight, fresh air and exercise are

needed for the animals immune system and other organ systems to function

healthily, thus reducing metabolic waste generated by the animal.

A person who receives no natural sunlight, exercise, or fresh air, can eat the

most healing diet available, and still struggle with sickness. It is not

healthy.

Summer

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>>>

You probably won't care then what Elaine said. That was that grass fed meat and

a great

concern for it was unecessary. <<<

This issue, I just cannot agree, and this is why. The quality of food has

taken a huge nose dive in the last 30 years, and overall, you could say the last

100 years. Our food supply, from meat to vegetables USED to contain higher omega

3 to 6 ratio. Now, omega 3 is scarce in the diet. And supplementing it has some

benefits, but drawbacks as well, and shouldn't be necessary in the long run with

fresh, quality food again.

The thing is, especially these children of ours with developmental

disabilities, we know that DHA cannot be made by the body, we know their bodies

have metabolic malabsorption syndrome, and we know that DHA is required for the

development of the brain, no matter what age.

After I had my stroke, I was told I would never play piano again, couldn't

operate my left arm or hand especially. Making the move to fresh food, and

upping omega 3's in my diet has had its place in my nearly full recovery of my

piano playing...my brain rewired...and I am an old fogey! This happened to me at

age 26.

My children are recovering from autism with SCD, and moving closer every day,

and it really has been a puzzle, still is ever evolving.I really think that is a

humongous credit to Elaine. Also, MCS is very real for people like us who suffer

from it. Hunter is allergic to everything from MSG to annatto (which is a

natural coloring) to food dyes, preservatives, so on and so on. He will be on

SCD for the rest of his life, and this is just fine for us, but on all accounts,

I do not think SCD would have been as successful for us if we did not switch our

meat sources. It was another puzzle piece for us. In my heart, I cannot believe

a cow NOT free in the pasture most of its days is not healthier then a grain fed

one, since cows cannot digest grains very well. If they were healthier, they

would have higher omega 3 ratio to 6...the sign of their digestion and

absorption is working. It also is a point to ponder, the cow being raised for me

needs less vitamin/mineral supplementation and all

those extra additives.

>>>However she also tended to discount my MCS and it took me several years to

get her to

respect my schemical ensitivities and latex allergy. She had not been at all

familiar with

the latex thing and the foods it cross reacts to. Somehow it never entered her

studies. She

accepted the research i showed her.<<<

It does seem if Elaine did not contact some information, it would naturally be

excluded from SCD. Yes, latex allergy is becomming more common then I think it

was in the past. So many children and adults on the spectrum have very long

lists of allergies and sensitivities sometimes.

Summer

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>>>

You probably won't care then what Elaine said. That was that grass fed meat and

a great

concern for it was unecessary. <<<

This issue, I just cannot agree, and this is why. The quality of food has

taken a huge nose dive in the last 30 years, and overall, you could say the last

100 years. Our food supply, from meat to vegetables USED to contain higher omega

3 to 6 ratio. Now, omega 3 is scarce in the diet. And supplementing it has some

benefits, but drawbacks as well, and shouldn't be necessary in the long run with

fresh, quality food again.

The thing is, especially these children of ours with developmental

disabilities, we know that DHA cannot be made by the body, we know their bodies

have metabolic malabsorption syndrome, and we know that DHA is required for the

development of the brain, no matter what age.

After I had my stroke, I was told I would never play piano again, couldn't

operate my left arm or hand especially. Making the move to fresh food, and

upping omega 3's in my diet has had its place in my nearly full recovery of my

piano playing...my brain rewired...and I am an old fogey! This happened to me at

age 26.

My children are recovering from autism with SCD, and moving closer every day,

and it really has been a puzzle, still is ever evolving.I really think that is a

humongous credit to Elaine. Also, MCS is very real for people like us who suffer

from it. Hunter is allergic to everything from MSG to annatto (which is a

natural coloring) to food dyes, preservatives, so on and so on. He will be on

SCD for the rest of his life, and this is just fine for us, but on all accounts,

I do not think SCD would have been as successful for us if we did not switch our

meat sources. It was another puzzle piece for us. In my heart, I cannot believe

a cow NOT free in the pasture most of its days is not healthier then a grain fed

one, since cows cannot digest grains very well. If they were healthier, they

would have higher omega 3 ratio to 6...the sign of their digestion and

absorption is working. It also is a point to ponder, the cow being raised for me

needs less vitamin/mineral supplementation and all

those extra additives.

>>>However she also tended to discount my MCS and it took me several years to

get her to

respect my schemical ensitivities and latex allergy. She had not been at all

familiar with

the latex thing and the foods it cross reacts to. Somehow it never entered her

studies. She

accepted the research i showed her.<<<

It does seem if Elaine did not contact some information, it would naturally be

excluded from SCD. Yes, latex allergy is becomming more common then I think it

was in the past. So many children and adults on the spectrum have very long

lists of allergies and sensitivities sometimes.

Summer

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