Manchester Farm specializes in grass-fed meat, responsible farming

Old Pine Farm specializes in grass-fed meat, which includes beef, pork, chicken, and, yes, emu. They cater mostly to the locals who want to be more responsible when it comes to consuming their eats.

Excerpt:

“We’ve all lost touch with the animals that become our meat,” said Catherine Friend, who operates a farm in Zumbrota, Minn., and whose book “The Compassionate Carnivore” (Da Capo Press, $24) was just released.

“For me, paying attention is the first step, and it’s the hardest because we’re busy. Sometimes we don’t even have time to eat, let alone eat right. It’s a matter of setting goals that you can achieve, so you don’t get discouraged. We don’t want this to be a fad.”

She advocates taking tiny steps to improve the meat you eat. For someone in a big city like Detroit, it might be eating one or two meals a month in which the meat came from farms that didn’t inject their animals with drugs or hormones, keep them stuffed in small interior spaces or fatten them up on feedlots with grains they wouldn’t naturally have eaten.

Read the entire article here.