This site is great. Unfortunately I can’t afford it right now, but maybe when I graduate!
There is no shipping charge!
yeah, I definitely don’t make enough money to shop there, but it’s still less pricey than it is at the grocery store.
I really don’t get why grass-fed beef is so expensive. I mean feeding the cows grass probably costs less than buying them corn and grains all the time right?
no, land is expensive and you have to pay someone to chase them around, vs putting them in a pen and letting an automated system feed them.
i come from a farming family that has peasant roots (the real kind - think eastern europe and no meat unless you grow it) and have an uncle who is the manager of one of eastern europe’s largest ‘factory’ farms.
there is no way that cost wise it is competitive unless you add in the cost of grain based farming in depletion of physical capital (the land’s reduced ability to produce cash from the land in the future - this compounds greatly) and any possible negative effects/costs to the medical system.
look around for prices, they vary greatly. here is a link with many suppliers:
if you are really big on eating grass fed, ground meat is often priced very reasonably, at around $4-5/lb, not so bad, also purchasing a quarter cow may be an option for those with a freezer, as are split purchases.
I want to order 50lbs of ground beef in January. Real bad! I think I might raise a stupid cow at my moms ranch next spring.
I just ordered 50 lbs of ground beef.
The local health food store used to carry grass fed beef but they recently stopped. They told me it wasn’t a big seller. So this is great. Thanks.
Carlsbad
Actually, prices of grass-finish beef isnt that much different to it’s grain-fed counterpart. Most companies like to simply inflate the price because they label the product “grass-fed” which doesn’t mean much unless it ends with “grass-finish”. Go to eatwild.com to check out a farm near you. A farm just 40 minutes from my house sells quarters for $4.50/lb.
I loathe the perpetual ignorance of the average consumer. Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.
There is a farm near my in MD that sells 50 pound boxes of grass fed beef for $200, it’s about half ground beef and the rest is roasts and steaks.
[quote]rholdnr wrote:
… Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.[/quote]
It is far more costly if you compare it to the sale prices of the almost expired stuff at the local supermarket.
Thanks for those links.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
rholdnr wrote:
… Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.
It is far more costly if you compare it to the sale prices of the almost expired stuff at the local supermarket.[/quote]
Yeah, because ,you know, that’s the same quality and all…
[quote]rholdnr wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
rholdnr wrote:
… Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.
It is far more costly if you compare it to the sale prices of the almost expired stuff at the local supermarket.
Yeah, because ,you know, that’s the same quality and all…[/quote]
Of course not.
[quote]rholdnr wrote:
I loathe the perpetual ignorance of the average consumer. Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.[/quote]
Huh? Are you serious? I can easily get ground beef at less than $2 a pound for regular corn fed beef at the local supermarkets. Show me a website that’ll match that for grass fed (grass-finished / free-range) beef.
Carlsbad
[quote]Carlsbad wrote:
rholdnr wrote:
I loathe the perpetual ignorance of the average consumer. Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.
Huh? Are you serious? I can easily get ground beef at less than $2 a pound for regular corn fed beef at the local supermarkets. Show me a website that’ll match that for grass fed (grass-finished / free-range) beef.
Carlsbad[/quote]
That may be true but the majority of the population doesn’t want to eat ground beef day-in/day-out. Besides, the health benefits aren’t present in corn-fed cattle.
P.S. If you WERE to buy, oh I don’t know, half of a steer, you would probably get about 400-500 lbs, which could equate to anywhere between 325 and 420 lbs of ground meat (if you had them grind everything that wasnt a steak, broil or roast).
At one not so cheap online seller of grass-finish beef 1/2 steer costs $1400 for c.475 lbs of packaged meat (not the hanging weight) that comes out to $3.50/lb INCLUDING the steaks, roasts and broils. With this you get c.400 lbs of ground meats. So I’m PRETTY DAMN SURE that if you were to do a little more math than I feel like doing and divide out the average WHOLESALE prices of those steaks, roasts and broils from the total, you would find that that ground meat comes out to a price VERY CLOSE to the $2/lb of your local corn-fed ground chuck.
Thank you.
[quote]sarah1 wrote:
This site is great. Unfortunately I can’t afford it right now, but maybe when I graduate!
There is no shipping charge! [/quote]
Oh god, thank you!
[quote]rholdnr wrote:
Carlsbad wrote:
rholdnr wrote:
I loathe the perpetual ignorance of the average consumer. Organic produce, wild-caught fish and grass-finished/free-range meat is not more costly, you just have to shop around to find what you want.
Huh? Are you serious? I can easily get ground beef at less than $2 a pound for regular corn fed beef at the local supermarkets. Show me a website that’ll match that for grass fed (grass-finished / free-range) beef.
Carlsbad
That may be true but the majority of the population doesn’t want to eat ground beef day-in/day-out. Besides, the health benefits aren’t present in corn-fed cattle.
P.S. If you WERE to buy, oh I don’t know, half of a steer, you would probably get about 400-500 lbs, which could equate to anywhere between 325 and 420 lbs of ground meat (if you had them grind everything that wasnt a steak, broil or roast).
At one not so cheap online seller of grass-finish beef 1/2 steer costs $1400 for c.475 lbs of packaged meat (not the hanging weight) that comes out to $3.50/lb INCLUDING the steaks, roasts and broils. With this you get c.400 lbs of ground meats. So I’m PRETTY DAMN SURE that if you were to do a little more math than I feel like doing and divide out the average WHOLESALE prices of those steaks, roasts and broils from the total, you would find that that ground meat comes out to a price VERY CLOSE to the $2/lb of your local corn-fed ground chuck.
Thank you.[/quote]
Good points that and If I am going to be eating 1-2lbs of beef a day I would rather pay for something that has less long term health risks… Once money permitting all I am buying is grass fed/free range etc meat.
rholdnr,
I understand the health benefits of grass fed beef. My point was your claim that buying range free, grass fed was no more expensive than corn fed was wrong.
BTW: I have purchased a free range grass fed half cow and let me tell you it provided a lot less meet after processing than 300 lbs - more like 175 lbs. It worked out to be about $6 per pound. I’m still buying but now just ground beef.
Carlsbad
[quote]Carlsbad wrote:
rholdnr,
I understand the health benefits of grass fed beef. My point was your claim that buying range free, grass fed was no more expensive than corn fed was wrong.
BTW: I have purchased a free range grass fed half cow and let me tell you it provided a lot less meet after processing than 300 lbs - more like 175 lbs. It worked out to be about $6 per pound. I’m still buying but now just ground beef.
Carlsbad
[/quote]
Where do you order it from? The only place I found on that list somewhat near me told me they would cut me a “deal” for 50lbs of ground beef at 6 dollars per pound! I think from grassland beef the 88% lean works out to 5.14per lb or so.
Any better sources?
kalle, find a nearby farm.
There is a farm only an hour or so from me, I’m going this weekend to talk to them, and see what they got. I may just buy a quarter cow. like someone said before, it only comes out to like 4 or 5 bucks a pound including steaks and roasts.
[quote]Kalle wrote:
Carlsbad wrote:
rholdnr,
I understand the health benefits of grass fed beef. My point was your claim that buying range free, grass fed was no more expensive than corn fed was wrong.
BTW: I have purchased a free range grass fed half cow and let me tell you it provided a lot less meet after processing than 300 lbs - more like 175 lbs. It worked out to be about $6 per pound. I’m still buying but now just ground beef.
Carlsbad
Where do you order it from? The only place I found on that list somewhat near me told me they would cut me a “deal” for 50lbs of ground beef at 6 dollars per pound! I think from grassland beef the 88% lean works out to 5.14per lb or so.
Any better sources?[/quote]
Go to eatwild.com to find a farm near you. Or order from one of the farms that ship out of state.
[quote]PozzSka wrote:
kalle, find a nearby farm.
There is a farm only an hour or so from me, I’m going this weekend to talk to them, and see what they got. I may just buy a quarter cow. like someone said before, it only comes out to like 4 or 5 bucks a pound including steaks and roasts.[/quote]
Thanks,
I did the only farm remotely close to me, which is only close because I work all over the damn place. I contacted them and they charge 6.97 a lb for ground beef I asked if they would do a price break if I got 50lbs. They told me 6 bucks a lb.
the original link grasslandbeef.com which I think is probably the biggest mail order company for grass fed beef is around 5.14 per lb for 50lbs of 88% lean beef.
I was just wondering if anyone else had specific sources as there is lots of ranches on that website. I will keep doing some research but if anyone has used a certain source it would be much appreciated.