Pasture Perfect: How You Can Benefit from Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals [Paperback]

Jo Robinson (Author), Frances Robinson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2004

Jo Robinson s popular book Pasture Perfect explains the far-reaching benefits of choosing meat, eggs, and dairy products from animals raised on pasture. Drawing on over 13 years of research, Robinson explains that products from grass-fed animals are safer for you and more nutritious than food from animals raised in feedlots. The animals benefit as well. Chickens are free to graze on greens, scratch for insects, enjoy sun baths, and roost in comfort. Cattle, bison, dairy cows and lambs are truly contented as they graze on green pasture, breathe fresh air, and stay on the farm from birth until market. What s more, raising animals on pasture is better for the environment. It requires less fossil fuel, enriches the soil with nutrients, and turns manure into a resource, not a waste problem.

Robinson is the first investigative journalist to gather all the scientific evidence about the benefits of raising animals on pasture. As readers will learn, products from grass-fed animals are free of added hormones and antibiotics and are less likely to transmit foodborne pathogens. The food is also higher in Vitamin E, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids, and CLA, a cancer-fighting fat.

Pasture Perfect does more than explain the benefits of choosing pastured products it also helps you locate, store, and cook them. Sixty pages of recipes will show you how to bring out the tenderness and flavor of this highly nutritious, environmentally friendly food.

Accurate and carefully researched, Pasture Perfect provides a concise overview of this greenest of all industries for consumers, policy makers, and farmers.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jo Robinson is a bestselling writer and investigative journalist who has authored or co-authored 11 popular books, including When Your Body Gets the Blues, The Omega Diet, Hot Monogamy, The Emotional Incest Syndrome, Unplug the Christmas Machine, and Getting the Love You Want. Over 2 million copies of her books have been sold.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Vashon Island Press (January 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967811619
• ISBN-13: 978-0967811611
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Science & Math > Nature & Ecology > Animal Rights

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super market meat??????, April 30, 2006

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truthseeker "truthseeker" (Shipshewana, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pasture Perfect: How You Can Benefit from Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals (Paperback)

Jo Robinson has done the research and it is enlightening. We have come so far from the days of the family farm and we haven't a clue. I am not a vegetarian but you can bet I won't be eating supermarket meat any longer, especially chicken (including eggs). Read the book to find out why (with scientific studies) organics, even more importantly pasture raised meat products are healthier for us. It is a quick and easy read because it does not take long to uncover the truth.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The system wasn't broke, but we "fixed" it anyway, March 17, 2008

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Lara Edwards (Lexington, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pasture Perfect: How You Can Benefit from Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals (Paperback)

An interesting read about the health benefits that come from good ol' fashioned grass farming and its animal products. This book shows how little control we actually have over our own food. On the other hand, it presents a convincing argument for consumers to get back in touch with local farmers and for farmers to rethink what makes good economic sense.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome product, February 24, 2009

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Paul Holtman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pasture Perfect: How You Can Benefit from Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals (Paperback)

highly reccomended to anyone who is wondering why modern medicine is not curing chronic disease.

read it once and open your mind, a GREAT book.