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Breeding Stock
The Dorper carcass is leaner
than most lambs and the meat is mild. It does not have a strong lamb taste.
Dorper carcass yeild is 57 to 58 percent
compared to 51 to 52 percent for other sheep breeds. We raise only grassfed lambs that are never given hormones or
antibiotics. Any meat you buy in a grocery store or meat market is loaded with toxins. All cattle, hogs
and lambs in a commercial feedlot are given antibiotics, grain (even chicken litter) and growth hormones to increase growth and
therefore profits. It is best to not eat commercial meats
(especially if you have cancer).*
Organic meat and poultry are
now available at most supermarkets. But organic is not enough. If I had to
choose between organic animal products and grassfed animal
products I'd take grassfed everytime. Why? Grassfed meat, eggs and poultry are nutritionally superior to organic products. This may
surprise people who have come to equate "organic" with more
nutrtious. This is not always true.
The term "organic is simply a guarantee of what
the food does NOT contain. You know the food won't contain pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic hormones or any of those chemicals you
can't pronounce. But organic food may still be deficient in
nutrients or loaded with sugar and "bad" fat. The limitations of the "organic
designation are most evident when it comes to animal
products. Organic but grain fed beef or lamb will be "cleaner" than feedlot
meat but it won't be any more nutritous.
When a ruminent is taken off pasture and
fattened on an artificial grain diet, it loses its stores of vitamins E,
Beta-Carotene, CLA and omega-3s. It doesn't matter whether
the grain is organic or not. Feeding grain to grazing animals makes the meat less beneficial to humans. In order to have
the healthiest meat the animals need to remain on fresh
pasture. Compared to grainfed meat, grassfed meat has
as much as 4 times more vitamin E, 5 times more cancer
fighting CLA, 3 times more heart-friendly omega-3s and twice as much
beta-carotine. It is also lower in calories, total fat and
saturated fat.
Since Dorpers breed year round we have grassfed
lambs for sale most of the time. We sell them by the whole lamb. A whole lamb will yield about 50 pounds of meat.
*
From Dr. Mike Thompson's Book "One Disease One Cause".
"So be very aware that almost all meats that
are available today in our society are loaded with
toxins and not the best choice of nutrition. Free Range (grassfed) and
organically raised meats are
your best bet. If you have cancer I recommend eating ONLY living food and
fish".
