Changes to “Product of USA” Labeling: The End of an Era of Consumer Deception
A step in the right direction for meat labeling laws and a major win for consumers – ”Product of USA” will now mean the animal was born, raised, and harvested in...
Education
- All
- 1915 Chronicles
- 1915 Meatery
- Farm Life
- Lab to Table
- Meat Labels & Greenwashing
- News & Regulations
- Nutrition
- Pets
- Product of USA
- The Big Meat Dilemma
- The Cure Controversy
- The Pasture Raised Perspective
The Pasture Raised Perspective – Part 3: Healthy Fats in Grassfed Beef
One of the most common reasons that consumers spend the extra money to buy grassfed meat is because they believe it is higher quality and has more nutritional value than...
The Pasture Raised Perspective – Part 2: Micronutrients and Antioxidants in Grassfed Beef
Let’s take a closer look at what vitamins and antioxidants are found in beef, and the micronutrient differences between grassfed vs. grainfed. Micronutrients include vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. In America,...
The Pasture Raised Perspective – Part 1: How Grassfed Beef is Different
We live in a time where most beef consumed in America comes from a feedlot, where the animals spend half their life, or longer. Depending on their arrival weight, cattle...
All the Way from Italy
After five months of waiting, our custom made meat rail (where our carcasses hang in the cooler) finally made it to our little town in Texas after being fabricated in Italy! As you can...
The Cure Controversy
Tanner and I have been working with outside processors for a long time now, and one thing we have always requested is a “natural cure” for our smoked bacon products....
The 1915 Meatery Update
I’m overdue for an update on the 1915 Meatery, our very own in-house whole animal butchery. The project has been in the making for a couple of years now, beginning...
Lab to Table: Part 2 – Lab Grown Meat: Food or Pharma?
When it comes to the process of growing meat in a lab with no actual animals involved (outside of the initial biopsy to gather cells), a recent study on lab...
Lab to Table: Part 1 – Lab Grown Meat: No Longer Science Fiction
After a decade in the making, it’s official – lab grown meats are likely to hit the market soon as regulatory approvals are now in the rearview mirror. In June 2023, the...
The Big Meat Dilemma: Part 7 – Is There Hope?
As we bring this series to a close, many of you may be wondering – is there hope?Hope for the farmers and ranchers of America? Will the next generation have a...
Part 6.1 – China’s Presence in American Agriculture
Over the last decade, Chinese firms have significantly increased their presence in American agriculture through buying up massive swaths of farmland, and purchasing major agribusinesses, like pork conglomerate, Smithfield Foods...
Part 6 – Food Security Is National Security: Foreign Investment in U.S. Food Supply
Nearly 30 million acres of US agricultural land is owned by foreign investors. Kenny Graner, the President of the United States Cattlemen Association explains, “Once Americans lose out on that capacity –...
The Big Meat Dilemma: Part 5 – Price Fixing and Pandemic Profiteering
If economics class taught us anything, it’s that when supply increases, retail prices should decrease. An epic 121 page complaint brought forth by a group of Midwestern feedlot operators alleges that shortly...
The Big Meat Dilemma: Part 4 – “The Food Supply Chain is Breaking.”
All of the vulnerabilities of America’s centralized and concentrated meat supply came forth front and center in March of 2020 – a system over 50 years in the making finally broke....
Part 3 – Meat Mergers and the Rise of The Big 4
Mergers starting 50 years ago marked the beginning of a massive consolidation that resulted in meatpackers with nearly double the power they held 120 years ago. A century after the...
Part 2.2 – Livestock Industry Consolidation in the 1980s
As an abundance of American farmers were closing their doors in the 80s, we began to see massive consolidation across the livestock industry. The largest meatpackers were growing rapidly and...