| Buying grass fed beef is now a growing interest | | | | range, and organic beef. They have the healthiest |
| amongst the health conscious people. However, | | | | and happiest cows. With this cowpooling, everybody |
| affordable grass fed beef is now very rare to find. | | | | enjoys wholesale prices of high quality grass fed |
| What you can easily find are high-priced beef on the | | | | beef. In addition, you are sustaining the local |
| internet or through mail order catalogs. They are | | | | marketplace. |
| mainly to accommodate the people who can afford | | | | In cowpooling, we are talking about an entire cow so |
| such inflated prices. The reason why these prices are | | | | you need to arrange some preparations. First in the |
| so high is pretty logical - there is an extremely high | | | | list is that you should be able to get enough storage |
| demand yet lack of supplies. It is also more | | | | space. Consider purchasing your own standalone |
| expensive to produce grass fed beef compared to | | | | freezer for your family's food. After all, you cannot |
| commercially produced beef. | | | | eat all the beef in one sitting. |
| But if you are a beef lover and also health conscious, | | | | Take note that you will be buying a huge quantity of |
| you will want to opt for grass fed beef despite the | | | | meat which means you will still be shelling out a |
| fact that it is expensive. You know too well that | | | | decent amount of money. Even though the amount |
| there's a big difference between | | | | is divided amongst several families, the total cost will |
| commercially-prepared beef and grass fed beef. | | | | still be higher. It is initially expensive especially if you |
| Commercial cows, as we call the current trend, are | | | | are the kind of person who buys meat every week. |
| confined in cramped pens and are fed with special | | | | However, cowpooling is definitely a great way to |
| feed to speed up their growth, on top of hormonal | | | | save money if you're serious about buying grass fed |
| treatments. Even worse, these cows' immune | | | | beef. |
| systems are weakened due to their lack of exercise | | | | If you don't have cowpooling in your area or not able |
| and unnatural diet. This forces the ranchers to give | | | | to find enough number of likeminded individuals to |
| antibiotics which, as residue, go into the beef that | | | | cowpool with you, try asking for farmer |
| you consume. | | | | recommendations. You may be able to get some |
| Luckily, a certain practice called cowpooling has gained | | | | information from the people who work in your local |
| popularity to save money in buying grass fed beef. | | | | grocery store or from your local butcher. You can |
| Cowpooling simply means a group of people putting | | | | also go online to shop around for grass fed beef. The |
| or pooling their resources in order to buy an entire | | | | higher the quantity, the cheaper the price will be. By |
| cow from a local farm. It is usually the local farms, | | | | working with another family, you can save a lot of |
| the smaller ones, who produce the natural fed, free | | | | money by buying in bulk. |