Tag: meat

  • Big or Small, Support Them All

    Big or Small, Support Them All

    I borrowed that title from a breast cancer awareness campaign I helped with in college. Our Collegiate Cattlewomen group at Kansas State University designed and sold t-shirts every October to raise money for breast cancer research and support. One year, the t-shirt said “Big or Small, Let’s Save Them All!” and I think that’s a…

  • What By-Products Do We Get From Cattle?

    What By-Products Do We Get From Cattle?

    What do we get from cattle (besides a headache when they get out of their pasture)? A lot. So the obvious products we get from cows are meat and milk, right? If that wasn’t obvious to you, it’s totally ok. The bottom line is that all cattle produce milk but we really only collect milk…

  • Exposing the Shameful Lies in “What the Health”

    Exposing the Shameful Lies in “What the Health”

    By now, you’ve probably heard of the vegan documentary “What the Health” on Netflix. It’s been reviewed, analyzed and, weirdly, praised for the past several weeks by folks of all walks of life. It’s scary right? Stop eating meat, adopt a vegan lifestyle and you’ll eliminate your risks of cancer, diabetes and heart disease, according to…

  • Why is My Fresh Ground Beef Brown?

    Why is My Fresh Ground Beef Brown?

    About six weeks ago, I was prepping some ground beef for freezer meals to use when our little one arrived (to be honest, I was actually in active labor and trying to get ‘one more thing’ done on my list before heading to the hospital) and noticed that some of the ground beef in the…

  • A Love Story That Breaks Veggie Hearts

    A Love Story That Breaks Veggie Hearts

    Absolutely hilarious I try to read a lot.  Sometimes I am successful and other times, I will let days slip by me without ever cracking a binding. So, while enduring a long layover in an airport recently (I honestly can’t remember where I was) I spied Food: A Love Story on the shelf, which has been on…