If you love meat, you know that you get the best flavor with naturally-raised livestock. Even more, you can feel good about those animals, knowing that they were raised in an environment that mimics nature, with plenty of time to roam, graze, and relax. What you might not realize, however, is that naturally-raised beef, lamb, or poulty in Tennessee can actually improve your health! Read on to find out some surprising benefits of natural farming.
Antibiotics for Infection, Not for Dinner
Many large farming operations dose their animals with antibiotics to make them bigger, or to prevent against infections caused by poor care. These antibiotics stay in the meat, contributing to global antibiotic resistance. Yuck! Make sure your meat has only received antibiotics if it is truly sick or injured and seek a natural farm! At Iron Station, our animals have room to move and are kept safe, and we don’t mind sacrificing a few pounds of meat for better taste and health!
Happy Hearts
Your heart won’t just feel good from keeping animals safer, it will get some real nutritional benefits! At Iron Station Farms we currently feed our livestock only the best quality, vitamin-fortified, USDA inspected, grain available which we obtain through a farm co-op. We are the dieticians to our animals using only the best protein available! We are moving towards all grass-fed to ensure our livestock continue to have low levels of total fat and higher levels of the healthy fats known as omega-3 fatty acids, plus linoleic acid to help fight imflammation and reduce the risk of heart diseases.
Fertile Futures
Another disaster of “big” farming is the use of artificial hormones. Just like antibiotics, the effects of these artificial hormones can linger in the meat, passing onto humans. While the jury is still out on these effects, humans are seeing hormone changes such as earlier puberty and fertility challenges. Ease your mind and stick only to the hormones that come naturally from exposure to sunlight and the environment!
At Iron Station we suggest put our meats to one final test: Does it taste good and make you feel good? Our beef passes, as do our lamb and poultry! If you want farm fresh meat with no antibiotics, no pesticides, no hormones, no steroids, and no chemical fertilizers consider meat from Iron Station Farms.
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