Badgers Farm High Barn Road, Effingham, Surrey KT24 5PP, 01372 450046 badgersfarm.co.uk Farm shop selling totally traceable, hand reared beef, pork, lamb, and goat.
We've also got a herd of organically reared beef cattle, so we're virtually self-sufficient.
Pasture-reared beef has been found to contain less fat and has a higher proportion of healthy omega-3 fatty acids compared with intensively reared beef.
Organic Elliott's Kitchen and Butcher's 181 Watling Street, Towcester, Northants NN12 6BX, 01327 350454 Traditional deli and butchers that rears beef and lamb on its own farm.
Kenneth J Eve 7- 9 Corner House Parade, Epsom Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1NX, 020-8393 3043 kjeve.co.uk High-quality traditionally reared beef from Orkney, free-range pork from West Sussex and lamb from the South Downs.
Of these, 141 were dairy farms, 187 farms reared beef cattle and 104 reared veal calves.
Intensively reared beef is produced from beef and dairy animals of around 18 months of age; these animals are fed cereals and concentrates and so come to slaughter weight faster than more extensively-reared animals, and the peaks in Figure 3 at around 500 days are due to this type of beef production.
You can also live the dream: Alberta is, even now, the home of many real-life cowboys who still rear beef cattle on ranches in places such as Pincher Creek.
The American food writer Barry Estabrook notes that steers reared for beef from the late 19th century onwards were often kept in confined conditions.
But if you've eaten intensively reared pork, beef or turkey, then you will almost certainly have consumed meat from an animal that's been fed the drug -- and probably eaten ractopamine yourself.
