High Winds Farm Our cattle's happiness is our main concern.

Some of the benefits of Grass fed beef (as we understand them today)

• ·        Grass-fed beef is lower than feedlot beef in total fat and calories.

• ·        Raising cattle on pastures is better for the environment. Some research suggests grass-fed beef has more nutrients as a result -- as much as 10 times more beta-carotene, three times more Vitamin E vitamin A, and three-times more omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6.

• ·        Grass-fed beef has a newly discovered good fat called "conjugated linoleic acid" that may be a potent cancer fighter.

• ·        Beef raised naturally has a lower fat content, and more “good” fats than mass produced beef.
• It's better for you, plain and simple.

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Our beef is hormone, pesticide and antibiotic free.

The only medication given to our cattle are those necessary to protect their health in the pasture.

Our cattle spend their entire lives out on pasture.

We don't want to try to prove that products from our farm are better for you. We don't have the scientific background to do that. We do know that a lot of research suggests that grass fed beef has more nutritional value for you; it can be better for the environment, and most important it's better for the animals.

You need to decide the merits for yourself.

To Quote Michael Pollen Author of the Omnivore Dilemma

Well, a cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold. ... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that. We can't digest grass. So to take land that is not good enough for agriculture -- that's growing grass and nothing else, that's been doing that for 10,000 years since the buffalo -- and put a cow on it ... there's something beautiful about that, and it's just the way it was meant to be, And I went into this story [for the New York Times] thinking, "Well, that's how we get meat." But alas, it's not true.

Click here to read more of Michael pollen

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/pollan.html