By Jose Felipe Abrigo - Contributing writer for Healthy & Living - Buy Grass Fed Beef
There is now a big demand for all natural grass fed beef amongst the health conscious beef consumers. But affordable grass beef is not easy to find. Although you may find these high-priced meat products on the Internet or through mail order catalog, they are meant to cater mainly the upper middle class people who can afford these inflated prices. Now, you may wonder why is it that these prices are so high, that only the rich can afford them. Well, the prices of all-natural grass-fed beef are extremely high because of high in demand but lack of supply. And producers of these natural healthy beefs know this very well. You may say that these beef producers price these products so high because "they can". In other words, if the supply of these natural beef products somehow met the demand these prices would not be as inflated and exaggerated.
Knowledgeable consumers also know the difference in value between commercial grocery beef and natural counterpart. Most beef that we buy from our local supermarkets are from large corporate feedlots. Feedlots are these confined ranches where cows are grain or corn fed to increase their body fat before slaughter for better profit gain. Not to mention that these cows receive regular synthetic hormonal treatment to increase their muscle mass.
This inhumane practice is known to have harmful effects on the consumers. You should also know that diseases amongst cows that are in these confined conditions are very prevalent which forces ranchers to treat them with antibiotics which then become part, as residue, of the beef products that you buy from commercial supermarkets.
There are much more that most beef consumers do not know about the real reason for the scarcity of this commodity. Most of us have been told that it is just too costly to produce 100% natural grass fed beef and sustainable ranching is just not conducive to fit our modern beef market economy. But is it all true?
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