What I love about farmers is that they’re just so damned practical. Just when I think I’ve got things figured out, and my dogma down, some farmer comes along and schools me in how logic, nature and, history can challenge all our assumptions.
Read MoreModern day grass-fed ranchers are not your run of the mill luddites resisting progress. Grass-fed beef is a tough business. Less than 5% of the market, it’s expensive to raise, complicated to manage, and hard to process. It would be a lot easier to raise cattle for nine months on the same pasture, and then sell them to a feedlot. But Seth has chosen a different path.
Read MoreBeef consumption per capital in the US has decreased dramatically over the last 40 years from almost 100 lbs. per person in the 70s, to about 55 lbs. per individual in 2015. If beef were such a telltale of cardiovascular risk, and its consumption has gone down, shouldn’t we see rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes also going down? Instead, they’re accelerating.
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