: Episode 1116 – Joe Heitzeberg joins Vinnie and Serena this Friday to discuss Joe’s company, Crowd Cow, ethically raised meat, the health benefits of red meat, and more.
ETHICALLY RAISED MEAT
- Joe started a company called Crowd Cow
- Here, you can buy meat from small vendors, you know who produces it and how it is produced
- Animals that are treated well and killed humanely
- You basically are sharing a cow with other people on the site
- Not just cows, salmon, chickens, and many other meats
- Serena has a hard time eating meat, but when she knows where it comes from and that it is raised well, it makes it easier
- Check out Crowd Cow here! Buy your meat here!
- Higher quality, better raised
- We all, at some level, want to know where our food comes from and when you buy in the grocery store, you really have no idea
- There aren’t many great natural sources of protein other than red meat
- Red meat & eggs are the two true superfoods
- Shawn Baker is an example of this
COW PARTS
- Cooking grass-fed beef is different — Crowd Cow provides recipes for all different cuts, types, etc.
- They provide individual cuts, cut combos, and tons of different types of beef
- Some are tougher, some more fragrant
- Vinnie isn’t a big cow organ guy, but some folks are and Crowd Cow sells organs too
- Be particularly careful with where organs come from
- Joe recommends browning and coating, throwing in carrots, mushrooms, etc to make it better
- Tongue is hard to find
- Grilled tongue is a top-level type of food
- Cooked for up to two days, thinly sliced, then marinated and grilled
PROTECTING THE EARTH
- Many small farms which prevent over-development and pollution go out of business every year
- If you support companies like Crowd Cow, you are saving these farms and helping the environment
- Small farms also better in and of themselves in regards to pollution
- Less mass production, less pollution
CRAFT BEEF
- Joe has a book on “craft beef”
- He learned not all grass-fed beef is created equal
- Big producer TRUCK IN GRASS to feed cows and they get to count as “grass-fed”
