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Rotokawa 688 calves
Below: A group of Bakewell collaborators who met at Barlow Ranch to discuss the Rotokawa Devon business.
Grass-Finished Beef Offers Safe
Option to Beef-Hungry Consumers
Contact: Ridge Shinn
Phone: 413-477-6500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HARDWICK, MA -- While consumers are alarmed by the mad cow crisis, a safe and healthy source of beef does exist in this country, according to producers of "grass-finished" beef. The farming practices linked to mad cow disease are shunned by these farmers, who are taking a different route to the marketplace, with beef fed exclusively on grass and raised according to a strict protocol that specifically forbids grain, animal products, antibiotic-laced foodstuffs, and hormones.
According to Ridgway Shinn, director of the Bakewell Reproductive Center, which was organized to revive livestock farming in the U.S., "People should know where their food is coming from and how it is produced." Shinn is also distributing grass-finished beef through a new company, Hardwick Beef, Inc.
Shinn says that in France, for example, a piece of meat can be traced to the farm where the animal was raised, and the farmer's methods are open to scrutiny. He is working to develop a similar system in this country because the public is increasingly demanding healthy, tasty, humanely raised meat that is source-verified. Many scien-tists, nutritionists, and gourmands now feel that the health and taste benefits of grass-finished beef will answer this demand.
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Contact Ridge Shinn
Hardwick, MA 01037
413-477-6500
Other resources:
www.bakewellrepro.com
www.eatwild.com
www.stockmangrassfarmer.com
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