[Renegade 13]

GuyOfDoom said:
Renegade it sounds as if you raise freerange cattle. I'd be curious as to the number of cattle you see in a year.

We've recently had to scale back, for a variety of reasons, primarily due to the plummet in prices after the '03 BSE scare people had, with a few cases found in Canada and the US. Before scaling back, we had around ~320-350, after, we'll have around ~220 after calving.

Although your farm/ranch may not participate in those practices it doesn't mean they don't happen.

Indeed, that is true.

I'd be also curious to know if your family owns your facility or if it's corporate.

We fully own our ranch (around 1700 acres), there is no corporate involvment whatsoever. All the ranches in our area aren't corporately owned.

As for processing, even if you yourself do nothing to the cattle while you raise it that doesn't mean nothing happens to the meat further down the chain.

I completely agree, as I mentioned in my previous post

Vegetarians miss out primarily on a few key amino acids and sometimes iron. Beef is gradually increasing in its content of saturated fat. Meat protein is good for you for a number of reasons, but that doesn't mean you should eat 5x your recommended servings in a day like most Americans do.

Hmmm, well I must say I know nothing of the saturated fat content (when we butcher our cattle, the meat is much more lean than meat you buy in the grocery store, despite the fact that our cattle are by no means malnourished ). And I agree that some people don't need as much meat as they eat, though vegetarianism I think is a very illogical extreme.