Why eat out of the trough when you can lodge a protest over hay you don’t like by standing in your trough! This is one of my all-time favorite pictures and it was taken last February.
Licorice is now in the freezer providing yummy homegrown beef on our table, filling our tummies, and giving us great all natural lean proteins, abundant in Vitamin B12, Zinc, Selenium, Iron, Niacin, Vitamin B6, and Phosphorus.
People often ask me how I can eat my own beef. Well, this is how I look at the situation. I’m an omnivore human but if I had to give up something in my diet, I would opt for dropping those veggies over meat any day. Yes, you heard me right. I love meat; especially a tender juicy tenderloin steak, a melt in your mouth bacon cheeseburger, fresh grilled salmon, oven roasted turkey with crispy skin, and let’s not forget old fashioned fried chicken!
If I’m going to eat meat then I want to make sure it’s fresh, been raised properly and butchered with capable and knowledgeable hands.
So, I take great pride in raising beef and recognizing their needs. I feel if you treat animals (even butcher animals) with diligence and make sure they have adequate feed, water, and care throughout their lives then you will have a well-managed and great cattle herd. I give the cows under my management the “best” life they deserve as each supplies a need in our lives; whether food or income; and I treat them with dignity until their life comes to an end.
A swift and calm kill by the butcher at the end to me is more humane than selling them at auction to a inhumane rancher that could run them into the ground and mistreated by another less reputable cattle owner. If the cows I raise end up on someone’s property that mistreats them I would not be able to sleep at night.
However, mine are given a good life, and in the end supply a need for us, and I thank God for all that he has blessed me with.
