Red meat is often criticised as having a very large footprint, taking up land that could be used to grow crops for human food, or eating grain that humans could be eating instead – however CSIRO research shows Australian beef production is efficient at converting both low quality protein in grains that humans can eat, as well as protein in grass that humans can’t eat, into high quality protein for human nutrition.
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What makes free range beef?
Navigating the different terms and labels for meat products might seem simple . . . Free range, feedlot, grass-fed, grain fed, organic, regenerative… Until it’s not. While phrases such as free range meat, grass fed beef and paddock to plate might seem reasonably self-explanatory, things aren’t always as they seem. In this article we explain exactly what free range truly means when used to describe meat products, as well as what you can ascertain about products that don’t make this claim.
The Provenir journey – it’s the ‘how’ (not just the cow) that makes highest welfare, ethical meat
The Provenir team knew that they wanted to ethically process and deliver the best meat direct from the farmer to the consumer. However, the industry paradigm and state legislation within the Australian meat industry made realising these goals impossible. That’s where a determined group of individuals decided to fight – for many years – to improve a flawed system resistant to change.