Buying Beef

Don’t forget when buying meat to ask if it’s grass fed AND grass finished. Some cattle is grain finished in the last few weeks to fatten the cattle and to settle them before slaughtering. You don’t want any grains to be fed to your beef.

 

Even biodynamic beef during a dry spell, 'lick blocks' are added to their diet which encourages the cattle to eat the dry grasses & helps them gain the energy from them. 

But, the blocks contain grain 

Bypass Protein Meal/crushed Grain 200 g/kg 20.0%
Urea 100 g/kg 10.0%
(Total Protein 320 g/kg 32.0%)
Phosphorus (P) 10 g/kg 1.0%
Calcium (Ca) 30 g/kg 3.0%
Sulphur (S) 25 g/kg 2.5%
Molasses 50 g/kg 5.0%
Salt (NaCI) Min. 550 g/kg 55.0%
(NaCI) Max. 560 g/kg 56.0%