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It is a travesty what has happened to the meat so many of us eat.   When my grandfather's generation raised beef, the cattle lived a natural life in green pastures.  There were no growth hormones or antibiotics.   Cattle drank from natural ponds and grazed on open pastures unchanged since buffalo herds trod the ground.  Today, most our meat derives from industrial-sized cattle and hog operations.  These are typically crowded, horrendously unsanitary pens where animals stand in manure up to their ankles.  Conditions are so unhealthy that they must be fed a steady dose of antibiotics; the same antibiotics that studies show are giving rise to antibiotic resistant bacteria, which threaten humans today.  If that wasn't bad enough, industrial meat operations give a steady diet of growth hormone to the animals, an unnatural mixture that makes its way into the human food supply with portentous consequences for our children. For farmers and ranchers, there is an alternative model, one wherein we won't poison our children.  Take a look at the links on this page to natural/organic farm information.

Learn more: History and facts about Cattle   

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• USDA Search "Cattle Ranches"
• USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
• Amber Waves (USDA Economic Research Publication)
• Million-Dollar Farms Dominate Production of Some Commodities (Amber Waves by USDA)

Learn Even More

• Bhattacharya, S. 2003. Cattle ownership makes it a man's world. Newscientist.com. Retrieved December 26, 2006.
• Cattle Today (CT). 2006. Website. Breeds of cattle. Cattle Today. Retrieved December 26, 2006)
• Clay, J. 2004. World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices. Washington, D.C., USA: Island Press. ISBN 1559633700.
• Clutton-Brock, J. 1999. A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals. Cambridge UK : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521634954.
• Purdy, Herman R.; R. John Dawes; Dr. Robert Hough (2008). Breeds Of Cattle (2nd ed.). http://www.breedsofcattle.net/.  - A visual textbook containing History/Origin, Phenotype & Statistics of 45 breeds.
• Huffman, B. 2006. The ultimate ungulate page. UltimateUngulate.com. Retrieved December 26, 2006.
• Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). 2005. .Bos taurus. Global Invasive Species Database.
• Nowak, R.M. and Paradiso, J.L. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801825253
• Oklahoma State University (OSU). 2006. Breeds of Cattle. Retrieved January 5, 2007.
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). 2004. Holy cow. PBS Nature. Retrieved January 5, 2007.
• Rath, S. 1998. The Complete Cow. Stillwater, Minnesota, USA: Voyageur Press. ISBN 0896583759.
• Raudiansky, S. 1992. The Covenant of the Wild. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0688096107.
• Spectrum Commodities (SC). 2006. Live cattle. Spectrumcommodities.com. Retrieved January 5, 2007.
• Voelker, W. 1986. The Natural History of Living Mammals. Medford, New Jersey, USA: Plexus Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0937548081.
• Yogananda, P. 1946. The Autobiography of a Yogi. Los Angeles, California, USA: Self Realization Fellowship. ISBN 0876120834