Buy practically organic beef straight from the farm

My sister discovered a great farm that raises cattle and sells direct to the consumer. She and I purchased a 1/4 of a calf for a fraction of what we would have paid at the grocery store. Plus we know how the animal was cared for.

Steve grilled some great steak from it Saturday. Delicious, less expensive, better for you, and supporting local farmers who are using responsible practices. Seems too good to be true!

The website is www.sellfarm.com

Below is some info from their site....

All of the Sell Farm's beef cattle are:

1)Angus sired ,

2) truly hormone and antibiotic free - some supermarkets carry this type of beef at a premium price, but we have not found (in a typical supermarket) beef that is both from Angus sires and is also dry aged,

3) dry aged just like in upscale restaurants and gourmet retail groceries- this increases tenderness and flavor, and it is not only the steaks that are dry aged but roasts and ground beef too - everything. Dry aged beef has the taste your parents would remember. It was the process used until about 40 years ago, now mostly replaced by wet aging in a plastic bag because it is cheap and quick to do. Dry aged beef is juicy, but contains slightly less water than wet aged beef. Because of this the weight of the final product is slightly less than wet aged beef - your not paying for water - like you do in some supermarket offerings! Dry aged meat is still available on the Internet and in a few stores, but at a great premium.

4) truly source verified - that is, the Sell Farm beef comes from calves that were born here on our farm.

5) from calves that grazed on pasture throughout their lives and were neither subjected to a life in a confinement feed yard, nor trucked half way crossed the country to a feed yard,

6) from animals 15 months of age when harvested; youth translates into tenderness. Young animals are more tender than old. Most hamburger you buy in stores comes from old dairy and beef cows that are no longer productive.

7) we use a very slow, meticulous, process of feeding calves and aging the meat, both of are expensive, but we feel it is worth the time and effort because of the flavor and tenderness we achieve. Since we eliminate the middle men, we are able to bring to you our beef at a very competitive price. If you are looking for a really cheap alternative to supermarket beef, you have come to the wrong place.

8) our beef is NOT injected with fluid and "natural flavors" as one of the largest meat sellers in the country does. We don't need to add flavor, it is already there. When you go to the super stores, turn over the beef package and note what the little label on the back states - you'll be surprised.

9) when comparing our beef to other Georgia cattle producer's product please take into consideration the following: The Sell Farm Angus beef calves are grain fed for a minimum of 6 months, the carcass is dry-aged for a minimum of 17 days, Angus calves are born on our farm and are around 15 months of age at when harvested, they live on pasture their entire lives and are not penned up for feeding, and of course we never use added hormones of antibiotics!

Finally, our customers (see Feedback section) tell us that there just isn't any comparison in taste of the dry aged product derived from The Sell Farm, LLC's cattle compared to that purchased at the supermarket ! We DO NOT embellish their remarks!

Government Schools

The following post is from Neil Boortz's website. Although, I don't agree with him on all subjects, I usually find myself in total agreement with his assessment of public education. I did take the liberty of taking out 2 "bad words" I didn't feel comfortable with, but if you find that it took away the effect, feel free to go to www.boortz.com to read the entire article.


AS IF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WEREN'T DUMB ENOUGH ALREADY

Denver, Colorado has decided to dumb down what already is a government education. Denver Government Schools decided that its talented and gifted program wasn't diverse enough. So in order to "correct" this problem, it has decided to give minority and poor students extra credit in order to qualify them as highly gifted. Yes ... you heard me right. Since there aren't enough minority and poor students in the gifted programs, the government is just by God going to declare some minority and poor students as gifted anyway .. and then shove them right into the gifted program.

In a district that is mostly Latino, the gifted program drew mostly white students. The program used to rely on oral tests to measure the student's reasoning and IQ. But some educators complained that these tests are biased against students who didn't learn English as their first language and poor students who haven't had "the same life experiences as their richer peers."

I feel a tear coming on.

So what does the program look like now? Under the new system, extra credit is given to children who are "economically disadvantaged," which is often measured by whether or not the student receives federal meal benefits. Not getting a taxpayer funded lunch at school makes you dumb. Extra credit is also given to students if English is their second language. And rather than relying on "biased" reasoning and IQ tests, the district now uses a composite score of the child's cognitive tests, annual assessments, reading tests and teacher nominations. And it gets even better. Next year, the district will be considering artwork.

So before the changes, only 3% of students fit the highly gifted classification based on cognitive tests. I guess we could safely assume that students scoring somewhere in the 90th percentile would be admitted. Well in the new and improved system, students scoring as low as the 75th percentile on these cognitive tests would be considered, if they also demonstrated that they could paint a pretty picture of a rainbow, a flower or Che Guevara. Unbelievable. The whole scheme is nothing more than a feel good "everybody is a winner" attitude ... this is why we are creating a nation of ------ and ----- who can't tell you the difference between a legislature and a ligature. So now in Colorado at what is supposed to be, the highest level of government education, we can only teach to the lowest common denominator including people who might not even be able to speak proper English!

Who's really to blame here? Let's address the parents of these truly gifted students. They should be making every necessary sacrifice to get their children the hell out of these hideous government indoctrination machines and into a private education facility where they can make the most of their talents. When all is said and done the true blame for these children not reaching their full potential will rest on the parents who turned them over to the government to be educated.

ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OUTRAGE

As if that story wasn't distressing enough ... this is yet another story about Denver government schools. Government school employees are up in arms trying to determine the difference between a kiss and a crime. Yes, folks, you read that correctly. You see, it all started back in January when a principal at a Denver middle school was served with a misdemeanor summons from the District Attorney for failure to report an unlawful sexual contact. Now, every government employee in Denver is panicking. Reports of this activity to Human Services increased 77% in just one month.

Now government school employees have to use their best judgment in determining when they need to "make a report if child abuse or neglect reasonably is suspected." Let me give you an example of the types of cases being reported to the government. In one case, two 5-year-olds were kissing on the playground. Clearly, this action stems from child abuse or neglect. In another case, one 6-year-old told another 6-year-old, "You have a sexy booty." That was also reported to the government.

In other words, government employees are wasting time and tax dollars by prosecuting children for kissing.

This is just absurd.