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Ethical Livestock Management

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Dream of owning a farm? Can you earn a living with cattle? Surprised?

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The farm raises grass-fed beef, meaning the cattle are not fed grain, which is typical in feedlot operations. Importantly, the animals do not receive routine dewormer (only if visibly 'wormy'), antibiotics (only if genuinely sick), or steroids. Furthermore, young bull calves are not castrated as babies (to become steers for market) nor are hormones implanted. The philosophy is to allow nature's hormones to grow the animals naturally, in contrast to the confined, often unsanitary, and heavily medicated conditions found in many industrial feedlots, which he argues produce 'fluff' beef.

Goal: The farmer details his ethical approach to raising grass-fed beef, which includes avoiding common industry practices such as routine deworming, antibiotics (unless medically necessary), steroids, and early castration.

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animals and land is in the soil it's in the microbes in the soil it's in the carbon in the soil it's in the plants in the Diversified salad bar that these cows eat now that being said all these are grass-fed beef I do not give grain to my animals this is grass cows and that's it they don't get Dormer they don't get because they move okay we'll talk about that in a second but they don't get Dormer okay they don't get antibiotics unless they're sick they don't get Dormer unless they're wormy okay they don't get antibiotics unless they're sick they don't get steroids we don't castrate our young Bulls which will make a steer which is what goes to market for beef we don't castrate them as babies and insert a hormone we let Nature's hormones grow these animals guys it's something that's super important to me and it should be super important to you we've got to stop this artificial mess that we're doing typically an animal like this would go to a feed lot in a confined area it would gain weight really really fast 12 16 18 months it's ready for butcher they take it to the Butcher and you're eating a bunch of fluff okay you've got a confined animal that's been overmedicated and it has to be medicated because if it wasn't medicated the living condition are so bad that they would be sick all the time doesn't make much sense to do that in my mind this is not good bad living conditions look at them they're all lounging they're all just chilling out it's awesome he first of all let's talk about profitability of an animal if I take one of these beef cows and make no mistake this is food okay these aren't pets this is food although some of them are rubbable and lovable and pettable this is food and the sooner we scratch all the ideas that life doesn't include death in this world then we'll be much better people much more well-educated people most people are sheltered from the seasons the only time they go outside is walking from the car to the door to the door to the car from work to the car door and from the car door back into the house or the car to the grocery store that's not understanding ecology and that's not understanding life cycles here life cycles depend upon a grazing herbivore just like this a ruminant animal a predator species and we are the king keystone predator species when it comes

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