Does anyone know if there's an online seller or grass fed organic meats?
There's a UK based shop but they don't deliver to Ireland
https://www.coombefarmorganic.co.uk
Athenry and Galway have butchers selling organic grass fed meats.
Cooleanowle
https://organicmeat.ie/
No it's not. Unless you're talking about small scale hobby farmers, the majority of Irish beef is finished indoors with strictly controlled feeding, including barley, maize and soya. Over a period of 2+ years it's not practical to raise beef exclusively on grass.Almost all locally-reared and -slaughtered beef in Ireland is mostly grass-fed and essentially, if not necessarily technically, organic. Worth talking to a good local butcher.
Dream on @T McGibney. "Almost all" locally-reared and slaughtered beef are fed supplements, including corn and God knows what else. Cattle reared for the beef trade are fed indoors for the winter on a mixture of hay and silage PLUS supplementary feed not consisting of grass. Nor is the grass most cattle graze on organic. It too will have artificial fertilisers spread on it as well as "weed-suppressants". Organic beef? Not within a million miles of it I'm afraid, the one thing we could probably have made a massive success of.
I agree though re approaching a butcher, if they slaughter their own cattle, but there are very few of those left.
Almost all locally-reared and -slaughtered beef in Ireland is mostly grass-fed and essentially, if not necessarily technically, organic. Worth talking to a good local butcher.
Big +1 to that. I'm not a fan of the whole organic thing. It's way too simplistic. There are plenty of way to produce good quality food, including veg and meat, while using fertilisers and modern production methods, and not compromising the nutritional value and quality of the end product and not damaging the environment.BTW, if "organic" these days involves the wanton cruelty of leaving forlorn cattle out on wet hillsides for the 5 months of the Irish winter, I think I'll pass on it myself, thanks.
No thankfully, not so much since the early 1990s. The risks of administering it to cattle cost a few local farmers their lives though.No more angel dust in your part of the world then.
Big +1 to that. I'm not a fan of the whole organic thing. It's way too simplistic. There are plenty of way to produce good quality food, including veg and meat, while using fertilisers and modern production methods, and not compromising the nutritional value and quality of the end product and not damaging the environment.
The risks of administering it to cattle cost a few local farmers their lives though.
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