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The major difference is in how it is raised. Our animals are treated with respect in that they are allowed to live and eat the way nature intended. We acknowledge that in return for providing humans with food and fiber, humans should do a good job of taking care of the animals needs. This means humane treatment and low stress environments.
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Grass-fed means that the animal spent all of it's life grazing grass and clovers. We do not play games with our customers by calling a lamb that is first grazed on grass and then finished on grain a grass-fed lamb. When we say grass-fed, we mean grass-fed all the way. Our lambs are 100% chemical free and grazed on 100% chemical free pastures, unlike much of the so-called grass-fed lamb from foreign sources.
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Free range means that the animal spent it's life outdoors, feeding in meadows or pastures, free to choose it's own food from those meadows whenever it wants. Our Fox Fire Grass-fed Lambs are not raised in confinement such as in a feedlot.
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Grass raised lambs are much higher in the cancer fighting agent conjugated linoleic acid. CLA . In fact a grass-fed lamb has the highest concentration of CLA of all meats, poultry or fish. Grass-fed lambs are rich in omega-3 fatty acids which is a cancer fighting fat reducing fatty acid. A grass raised lamb will be very unlikely to ever have E Coli contamination. You as our customer will be returning to a more traditional, natural diet produced on a family farm. For information on CLA and the health benefits of grass-fed lambs visit; EatWild.com where you can learn about the benefits of grass-fed lamb.
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We at Fox Fire Farms consider the whole picture in all we do. This means if we want a clean, healthy product, free from insecticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers, we must practice sustainable agriculture on our farm. As a result, not only do the lambs benefit, every other creature on the farm benefits from the soil organisms to butterflies, birds, deer, to the humans who work and play here to our customers.
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No! Never! While science is unsure of the possible links between Creutzfeldt - Jacob Disease (CJD) in humans and the practice of feeding animal by-products to the animals we eat, why should we take the chance ? Fox Fire Grass-fed Lamb is produced the way nature intended.
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The conventional animal feedlot system, uses 15 calories of oil and petroleum produced products to produce a single calorie of food. At Fox Fire Farms, solar energy is our fuel source. Every blade of grass, every leaf of clover is a mini solar panel that catches sun light which in turn produces our product for you.
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The humble sheep, when used in the proper manner, is truly a gift to mankind. Sheep grazing can be used to recycle the nutrients and minerals more effectively. Sheep manure is the highest quality of all domestic livestock, building the soil and the organic matter where ever they graze. Sheep can be used as low cost, non chemical method for controlling noxious weeds. Sheep do not like to get their feet wet and therefore have the least impact on riparian areas of all domestic livestock. Sheep posses exceptional abilities to transform a wide variety of feed stuffs, produced in many ecosystems, into high quality produces for human use.
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