In the mid-1990’s, a group of farm families from Northeast Missouri and Western Illinois decided to go against the grain. No, literally they went against the grain. While most cattle farms had long since turned to corn and grains to fatten up their herds, these...
September 1, 2020
Labor Day 2022 is Monday, September 5th. Please have your orders in by 10AM central, Wednesday August 31st to ensure your food is delivered in time for the holiday weekend. Our online store is open 24/7, 365 days a year, but our office will be closed September 5th to...
May 30, 2018
This post is found in the following categories: Misc. Info
I get a lot of pushback from vegetarians when I tell them that eating meat is essential to good health.But I realize it’s not their fault.For decades, the public has been force-fed a diet of misinformation and intentional deception from Big Agra, mainstream doctors,...
May 26, 2022
The calories that children and adolescents consumed from ultraprocessed foods jumped from 61% to 67% of total caloric intake from 1999 to 2018, according to a new study from researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University....
April 12, 2022
Virtually all chronic metabolic and degenerative diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, are primarily caused by consuming this. By Dr. Mercola Some of the most damaging components in our modern diet are processed vegetable oils, as they contain...
February 24, 2022
This post is found in the following categories: Expert Advice, Health & Fitness, Toxins, US Wellness Meats
By Dr Mercola It likely comes as no surprise that eating a diet filled with ultraprocessed foods is unhealthy. Research has demonstrated ultraprocessed foods can increase your caloric intake and weight gain.1,2 Data3 gathered from 2009 to 2010 from the National Health...
November 4, 2021
By Dr Mercola Evidence suggests that eating ultraprocessed foods may have a negative effect on bone strength and increase the risk for fracture.1 Osteoporosis is the medical term that describes a loss of bone density and quality of bone as people age....
August 26, 2021
By Dr. Mercola The struggle with weight gain and obesity is a common and costly health issue, leading to an increase in risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer. Obesity affects more than one-third of adults and 17 percent of young people in the U.S.1 ...
April 11, 2019
This post is found in the following categories: Expert Advice, Health & Fitness, Heart Health, Our Farms
Author: Nicole Recine RN MSN AGPCNP-BC The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen (World Health Organization, 2015a). This places processed meat...
July 24, 2018
Losing weight is hard enough without your doctor constantly warning you about the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.It’s an established fact that the typical American diet – with its overload of processed sugars and carbohydrates – causes insulin resistance and...
August 18, 2022
This post is found in the following categories: Expert Advice, Good Fats, Paleo, US Wellness Meats, Weight Loss
Mastering different fats is key to distributing flavors evenly and achieving certain textures we all know and love. So how do you get good at it? Experimentation and practice, of course! Animal fat differs in texture, taste, and nutrition depending on the specific...
August 16, 2022
A lot of tallow and lard is sold out of the U.S. Wellness Meats barn, so to speak. And the number of people who have questions about tallow, or who use lard and tallow interchangeably, is so high that we’ve come here today to settle the debate between these two...
August 16, 2022