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Welcome to Bolser Family Farms. Our farm is dedicated to producing safe, humane, healthy and great tasting meat. Below are the guidelines and criteria that we follow when raising our animals.
- All animals are never raised in a confinement building.
- Animals are never given any antibiotics, growth hormones, or animal by-products.
- Our beef is raised out on pasture and provided access to grain.
- Bolser Family Farms pigs are never confined to small pens, they are always out in the fresh air and given plenty of room to run around.
- We specifically have chosen the breeds that we raise for superior taste and health.
What seperates us from a corporate farm.
Government farm subsidies
We do not take any government subsidies; we believe its simple you shouldn't have your hard earned tax dollars coming to our farm. The majority of government subsidies do not benefit the regular every day small family farm. Instead they benefit the farmer that is farming thousands of acres per year. According to http://farm.ewg.org/ and Ken Cook between 1995 and 2009 the top 10% of Americas farmers receive 74% of the government farm subsidies. That averages out to just under $30,000 per year for the top 10% of farmers. Also according to Ken Cook and http://farm.ewg.org/ between 1995 and 2009 over 156 billion dollars of your tax dollars went to the top 10% of American farmers. I encourage everyone to check out this site it has a lot of great and useful information that every tax paying citizen should know about. It also has some practical tools that allow you to look up the farmers in your zip code, and see exactly how much of your money that they take each year.
Humane animal treatment
Our animals are never confined to small areas and forced to be raised in dirty unhealthy conditions. Because our beef is raised outside on pasture they are never forced to be standing in manure that is knee deep, compared to some feed lot operations. Our pork also is always out in the fresh air never stuck in a large confinement building that forces them to stand over manure pits that contain deadly levels of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and methane. It is well documented that each year there are lives lost in connection with manure pits. Whether it is farmers going into the pit to replace broken equipment or kids exploring or playing and falling in. The bottom line is that it is not worth the extra income for the big health and environmental problems that come with confinement farming.
Local Economic Growth
When we raise our animals, we buy all of our replacement animals from nearby farmers. After the animals are ready we then take them to a local small family owned meat processing plant that is USDA inspected, then we deliver the meat to you. We go out of our way to make sure that we keep things as local as possible. In our opinion you should have the option to buy meat from a local source, not meat that has been raised in one state, then processed in another state and then finally ending up in some other state.
Grain finished
Recently the big craze has been grass-fed beef and when you read a lot of the information on the internet you must be careful and understand exactly what it is that your reading. For example some grass-fed sites that urge you to "eat wild" use information that is not exactly not completely up front and honest. They compare beef, but they do things like compare 95% lean beef to 70% ground beef from a supermarket. And any one that knows anything about beef processing knows that beef in the grocery store commonly comes from multiple animals and those animals are usually the old animals that are only good for hamburger. Recently I spent a summer working for the local custom processor that handles our meat and many of the areas small farmers around us. And there were a couple times that a farmer would bring in an old cow that would not breed anymore and get it ground up into hamburger. The end result was hamburger that was usually in between 85-90 percent. Which means that the ground beef in the supermarket usually contains fat that was added above what would normally be in the meat. They do this to make the hamburger more profitable for them; since they can buy beef fat very cheap. There were also a few farmers that brought in grass-fed beef, and the difference that I saw was that the beef did look different hanging in the cooler and was tougher to cut and de-bone. If you have ever seen deer meat it looked almost identical to deer meat. But the big question is does that make it any healthier? I have searched research databases and not found any articles that compare the same meat product and the direct effects it had on their health. Mostly what I found was research articles that were funded by someone who had an incentive one way or the other. However I did find a recent article about research done at Texas A&M, arguably the most respected Ag schools in the country, that stated that beef from grain-fed beef actually was better than grass-fed beef and raised your HDL higher than grass-fed beef as well. I thought this was an important article that should be shared and so I had e-mailed professor Steven Smith whom had conducted the research. He shared that he had got a lot of negative feedback from people taking this as an attack on grass-fed beef; he mentioned that it was nothing like that at all. Instead he mentioned that their meat science department did this because they saw no research that compared the same grass-fed product to the same grain-fed product. As I mentioned when they fed both the products to the same group of men over a six week period, the end result was that the grain-fed beef appears to be actually healthier than the grass-fed beef. I encourage everyone to take a look at the length of the study and to follow this link to Texas A&M to read all about this article. http://agnews.tamu.edu/showstory.php?id=1934
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Bolser Family Farms
3314 Johnson Fork Road
West Harrison IN, 47060
e-mail jabolser@gmail.com
