Eat for Health, Eat for Change
What you eat matters. It matters to your health, it matters for your safety, it matters for the environment. Grass Hill Foods sells meat produced by Saskatchewan’s best farmers, for your health, for your safety and for the environment.
Your Health
Grass-fed meat is healthier and more nutritious.
Meat from grass-fed ruminants has higher levels of the healthy fats (Omega-3 and CLA), more of the antioxidants (Vitamin A, Vitamin E and beta-carotene), more minerals (calcium, magnesium and potassium) and greater amounts of the B-vitamins (thiamin and riboflavin) than grain-fed beef. It is also leaner and doesn’t contain other unwanted substances like artificial hormones and antibiotics.
It doesn’t come as a surprise, when an animal is healthy from getting the proper feed, and is handled in a stress-free humane manner, the meat is of a higher quality. Just as a tomato you carefully grow in your garden is not the same as a tomato you buy from the supermarket, meat grown and processed in the industrial food system will not be the same as meat grown and processed with the care and attention that dedicated farmers and meat processors use.
Your Safety
Your food should not make you sick. From the way the animals are raised on the farm to moment it arrives at your doorstep, meat from Grass Hill Foods has selected the safest methods of production, processing and delivery to ensure the safety of your meat.
It starts at the farm. Clean meat comes from healthy and clean animals. Grass Hill Foods farmers raise their animals in a clean environment, fed a proper diet of grass, and are free of artificial hormones and antibiotics. This creates meat with unwanted substances and reduces the pathogens that could make you sick.
The second line of defense occurs at processing. Grass Hill Foods uses West Bridgeford Meats to process the animals. They are a Domestically inspected facility and maintains very high safety standards. They instantly freeze the meat after processing. You receive the meat in this same frozen state. Regular delivery times and specific delivery instruction will allow us to get the meat to you quickly and efficiently. We collect primary and secondary delivery information when you register so you always receive the meat safely and conveniently.
The meat from each farmer is processed individually. Animals from different farms and feedlots are not mixed together. This allows you to know exactly where your meat came from. Even the processed meat products come from a single producer. A tracking system places unique tracking number on each package guaranteeing the source farm for all the meat. When you buy from Grass Hill Foods you know you are buying meat that matches your values and expectation.
The Environment
How your meat is grown, processed and delivered greatly affects the environment. Grass-fed meat production is the most environmentally beneficial and sustainable way to enhance and protect the prairie ecosystem.
No other method of land management comes close. The prairies are adapted for large herbivores to create the habitat required for other prairie flora and fauna..
Through managed grazing on native or established forages, grass-fed farmers are able to replicate the actions of the bison roaming across the prairies, just as they did for hundreds of years. This stimulates the ecosystem to support an enhanced diversity of flora and fauna. Managed grazing will stimulate population of the prairies with prairie birds and prairie flowers. Many of these species are not able to survive in monoculture crops or overgrazed pastures.
To Create Change
Use your food buying decisions to create a positive impact for you and your family’s health, and the development of local, sustainable farming practices.
Grass Hill Foods carefully selects some of Saskatchewan’s best farmers who are making positive changes for your health, safety and the environment. Buying grass-fed meat will reward the farmers that are creating these positive changes and encourage new farmers to adopt these production practices.
Farming this way isn’t easy. The animals take longer to finish off than animals finished on grain. The meat is priced to provide a fair return for the producers and other people required to bring this meat to you. Nothing more, nothing less.
Grass-fed producers are fairly compensated based on their cost of production while maintaining the environmental, animal health and safety standards. Processing and marketing costs are also modest and done in ways to minimize overhead and advertising costs.
