Austin Area Grass Finished Beef Cooking Class

Now offering a grass finished beef cooking class in the Austin area. This can be a one-on-one cooking class or up to eight people. We come to you and teach this  grass finished beef cooking  bringing everything needed to demonstrate the basic cooking techniques for maximizing flavor and tenderness of grass finished beef. 

Normally this class will take between 2 to 3 hours depending on the number of people attending covering slow cooking, grilling, pan frying, stir fry, skillet cooking of roast, steaks, and ground grass finished beef.

We can customize the class for dietary options or restrictions such as low carb, keto, paleo, and carnivore. Just let us know when scheduling what area of interest you have and we can select  recipes that focus on that area. Also let us know if you have a dish or food item that interests you the most like burgers, tacos or spaghetti. We usually can make spin-offs recipes for these items. 

You can use the contact form below to reach out to us or give us a call at 361-772-2628

Trump suggest limiting beef imports but what about MCOOL

Why are we not seeing more media coverage about MCOOL?

 I don't know why with President Trump making headlines about not importing beef. The newspapers and other news outlets are not covering the Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling issue.

The American consumer deserves the right to know if the beef their eating was born, raised, and processed in USA.

The American rancher deserves the right to have their USA produced ground beef without foreign beef mixed in on groceries stores shelves.

The petition at www.demandusabeef.com   to reinstate MCOOL has over 380,000 signatures in less than a month. Signed by both cattle producers and consumers alike.

I am unsure if you can trust what the NCBA (National Cattlemans Beef Association) has to say about MCOOL, they dont speak for cattle ranchers or consumers. They are obligated to  represent the major packers members of their organization who benefit from not having mandatory label on beef. 

This is causing a quickly growing conflict within the NBCA between packers who want to buy cattle as cheap as possible and cattle ranchers who want a fair price for their cattle.

What does MCOOL mean to this cattle rancher

What does MCOOL (Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling) mean for me or how does MCOOL effect me?

Before I get into MCOOL, I should give you a bit of background about myself. I grew up Texas around cattle, my father had a diary when I was a kid. My Grandparents and their parents raised cattle and I'm still here running the ranch.

I am cow/calf producer what most people think of when you say cattle rancher. Basically I have a herd of moma cows with few bulls and they produce calves. I then sell the calves around 7 to 9 months old. Every year I get new crop of calves from the mommas. 

I sell to cattle to backgrounders or feeders through the use of sale barns. These backgrounders will continue to raise the calves until there ready to be harvested or raised up to be momma cows. Once sold I don't have any control of what happens to them. 

So, how does MCOOL effect me? Maybe I should be asking is how does imported cattle effect me?

First without mandatory labeling, packers are passing off beef from outside the US by tricky labeling. Maybe not tricky more like just dishonest. Why wouldn't that make someone upset? To have a product passed off as yours when it's not. 

It also overall cheapens my product. Bringing in cheap imports, lowers the quality of beef here in our stores. These aren't savings they passing on to the consumer. Not at all.  In the last few years the price of meat at the store has increases while cattle prices  have dropped. 

Lastly, I really dont like the idea of depending on forgein companies to produce our food supply. We have most of pharmaceuticals made outside the US now. This is putting many of our most important items in the hands our countries.

Sign the Petition to Support MCOOL 

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www.demandusabeef.com