Websites & Articles
Eat Wild
Eat Wild is the #1 site for grass-fed food and facts. Provides a direct link to local farms that sell all-natural, delicious, grass-fed products. Also lists comprehensive, accurate information about the benefits of raising animals on pasture. This is your source for safe, healthy, natural, and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy, and other wild edibles.
A Consumer's Guide To Grass-Fed Beef
A Consumer's Guide To Grass-Fed Beef by The University of Wisconsin Extension-March 2009.
Eating Processed Meats
Eating Processed Meats, But Not Unprocessed Red Meats, May Raise Risk Of Heart Disease and Diabetes by (e) Science News.com-May 2010.
Greener Pastures: How Grass-Fed Beef and Milk Contribute to Healthy Eating
Greener Pastures: How Grass-Fed Beef and Milk Contribute to Healthy Eating by Dr. Kate Clancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, UCSUSA.org-March 2006.
Health Benefits of Grass-Fed Products
Check out this article on the Eat Wild website.
How to Buy the Best Beef
How to Buy the Best Beef by Aliza Green, CNN.com/Health-January 2009.
New Studies Prove Organic and Grass-Fed Are Worth the Price
New Studies Prove Organic and Grass-Fed Are Worth the Price by Dr. Mercola, Mercola.com-Feb. 2016.
Switching to Grass-Fed Beef
Switching to Grass-Fed Beef by Tara Parker-Pope, NYTimes.com-March 2010.
Organizations
Eat Well Guide
Eat Well Guide is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown, and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada.
Farm Fresh Atlas of Western Wisconsin
Farm Fresh Atlas of Western Wisconsin is an atlas of local farmers, farmer's markets, food co-ops, grocery stores, and restaurants that have pledged their commitment to help create a sustainable, locally grown food system that protects natural resources, minimizes use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and treats animals with care and respect.
GrassWorks
GrassWorks is a Wisconsin statewide membership organization that provides leadership and support for grass-based farming.
Holistic Management International
Holistic Management International is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the health of degraded private, public and communal grasslands worldwide. By managing land resources in partnership with nature, we can increase land productivity, optimize water resources, preserve food sources, create sustainable livelihoods, and remove Carbon Dioxide from our atmosphere.
Land Stewardship Project
Land Stewardship Project is a great Minnesota non-profit that features the Myth-Buster series on sustainable agriculture. The mission of the Land Stewardship Project is to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities.
Local Harvest
Local Harvest is the ultimate resource for finding local food! The best natural food is what's grown closest to you. Use this website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is an idea, a way of living, and a way of eating. It is a global grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
The Weston A. Price Foundation
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research, and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including: accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting, and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants.
Wisconsin Farmer’s Union
Wisconsin Farmer’s Union — A member-driven organization is committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities and all people through educational opportunities, cooperative endeavors and civic engagement.
Books
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is to better answer the question, “What should we have for dinner?,” author Michael Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is a book authored by Michael Pollan that shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context out of the car and back to the table.
Documentaries & Films
Food, Inc
You'll never look at dinner the same way again. This film lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
The Meatrix
A series of award-winning flash animation movies that expose the harsh realities of factory farming and the meat you eat. Viewed by more than 15 million people.
Cookbooks
4 Recommended Cookbooks
The Grassfed Gourmet by Shannon Hayes, The Farmer and the Grill by Shannon Hayes, Wholesome Home Cooking by Katie L. Stoltzfus, and Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.