Looking for grass-fed meat in southern France, please help!

[ys]

According to what I read it's NOT grain finished.

i did not know that.  thanks for the link.

[Iguana]

Iguana, judging from this link you seem to be mostly right except for one big exception:-
http://www.anzcofoods.com/our-products/beef/grain-fed-beef

Oh yes, they say their company also markets something very special there: grain finished beef! I hope it was not from one of these that I once bought a beefsteak in Auckland! But I never saw any NZ beef in Europe, only lamb.

The majority of beef available in New Zealand is grass-fed, due to our country’s free ranging pastures and favourable climate, leading to an abundance of fresh green grass all year round.

On world markets, sustainably farmed free-range grass-fed beef is a unique selling point, as most countries are unable to provide both the space and the environment, along with the efficiency and skill to meet the demand for these products.

YS: You're welcome!

[Löwenherz]

The NZFSA (New Zealand Food Safety Authority) has guaranteed me in a e-mail that the meat exported from NZ is not irradiated. It would be very odd that they do that in a country strongly opposed to the nuclear industry. I never had any problem with it, except once.

What kind of problem did you have with NZ Lamb?

I have seen an video from one of the biggest meat exporters of New Zealand. They proudly presented their hyper-modern slaughterhouses which are completely computer-controlled. Most of the work is done by extremely fast roboters. This was one of the most disgusting videos I have ever seen. Its reason enough for me to stop buying meat from NZ. Furthermore they showed their irradiation machines in this video. Every meat is irradiated for "food safety".

[Iguana]

What kind of problem did you have with NZ Lamb?

My girlfriend and I caught a cold after eating a NZ lamb leg. We thought it was from that, but it's difficult to know for sure. Every other times I ate NZ lamb I had no problem at all.

Isn't that video on line ?

[Alive]

Almost all NZ meat is totally grass fed - From NZ Beef & Lamb  :
'A very small percentage of New Zealand beef and lamb is grain-finished to meet specific market demand.'
( http://www.beeflambnz.co.nz/resources/Reference_Guide.pdf )

Personally though I prefer seafood, since all the earths minerals end up in the sea, plus they are wild, and if you choose small fish and crustaceans they are small enough to chuck in the blender to get all the goodness of all parts of the animal, including organs, skin, bones etc : ) Being small also means they are at the bottom of the food chain and won't have bio-accumulated many toxins. Frozen raw prawns and shrimps are my current favorite.

[grasspunk]

You can get pastured, grass-fed and finished beef in SW France. We raise it and I know at least one other farmer who does it. We're in the Gers (32).

The differences between French beef and US beef are huge, but I won't bore everyone with details. Ping me at bc@grasspunk.com if you want to talk.

[Iguana]

Glad to know that, we must be very near! I just sent you an e-mail.

François

[grasspunk]

Received and replied.

I'm slowly writing up a few documents on the grasspunk website about grass-fed beef but one of the areas I lack is the paleo side. I'll get there - I read all of De Vany's site before it went private a few years back as well as many of the other texts, so I can talk to a lot of the material. I had no idea there were paleo folk in France, but it is all good news to me.