Seattle thundering hooves

Share story. By Vicki Hillhouse. This Seattle steakhouse wants to be part of the solution. Vicki Hillhouse : vickihillhouse wwub. Vicki covers business and economic development, including tourism, the Port of Walla Walla and the Strictly Business column, as well as features. After parting ways with his in-laws in January, followed by the shuttering of their company, Swanson — who lives with his wife and children on their own acre family farm — recognized that he and Clarice loved the business, the lifestyle and the connections they made with customers throughout Washington and Oregon, and wanted to jump back in as soon as possible, he said.

Thundering Hooves filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy late last month. Having provided this service in the past, and intending to focus on it in the future, Swanson believes, is better for his small company and for the consumer. Some producers advertise their meat as grass-fed, or mostly grass-fed, and then find euphemistic ways to say the cows got sent to a feedlot for a while.

Cows frolicking video: I adored this video from Tom Philpott of Grist. Remember, the fat from animals on spring pasture, when the grass is growing quickly, is particularly high in vitamins like vit A and vit K2 MK Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment. You raise some good questions in this article regarding what it takes for a grassfed producer to make it in the marketplace, and there are as many answers as there are producers.

I did want to point out a couple of inaccuracies in your paragraph on terminology, however. The USDA regulates use of the term grassfed, and their standards dictate that the animals are fed nothing but grass and forage from weaning to harvest.

On the other hand, the terms pasture-finished and grass finished have no legal definition, so the producer can create any kind of story. For some, that means what you describe, but for others, all it means is that the animals received some grass in the last few weeks or months of life. Producers are audited annually by a third party so you can be sure the meat is what is says on the label.

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