{"id":4033,"date":"2014-12-21T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2014-12-21T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:27:27","slug":"clearing-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/clearing-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing up the confusion…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….or trying anyway.\u00a0 One of the common misconceptions in that somehow organic beef is superior to grass-finished beef.\u00a0 In fact, the only real assurance you’re receiving the full health benefits of the beef you’re eating is to be sure it’s not only grass fed but grass finished<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

It’s the “be sure” part that’s the trick.\u00a0 For that you have to know the source of your meat and to a large extent depend upon the integrity of the farmer.\u00a0 We’re aware of many so-called grass farmers who feed “just a little” grain to finish their steers.\u00a0 And Dr. Joseph Mercola makes the point that even that “little” is enough to rob that steak of its healthful properties.<\/p>\n

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….or trying anyway.\u00a0 One of the common misconceptions in that somehow organic beef is superior to grass-finished beef.\u00a0 In fact, the only real assurance you’re receiving the full health benefits of the beef you’re eating is to be sure it’s not only grass fed but grass finished! It’s the “be sure” part that’s the trick.\u00a0 For that you have to know the source of your meat and to a large extent depend upon the integrity of the farmer.\u00a0 We’re aware of many so-called grass farmers who feed “just a little” grain to finish their steers.\u00a0 And Dr. Joseph Mercola makes the point that even that “little” is enough to rob that steak of its healthful properties. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/12\/21\/grass-fed-beef-production.aspx?e_cid=20141221Z1_SNL_art_1&utm_source=snl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20141221Z1&et_cid=DM62903&et_rid=772700354  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}