Factory Farming…

Some of today’s conventional farming practices include:

• Confining hundreds to thousands of animals in the smallest space with little or no sunlight or fresh air
• Antibiotics, chemicals and/or hormones used to promote faster growth and ward off disease that are bred from animals living in their own feces
• Mutilation of animals
• Genetic engineering
• Contract growing: family farmers sign away ownership of their animals to major corporations who then control all aspects of raising the animals, and the farmer is left with the risk, overhead, waste and any dead animals

• Cows and sheep become prone to sickness from an unnatural diet.
• Grain—which actually refers to corn—is the standard feed used on farms today. Their diet and environment are carefully controlled so that they reach market size in the least amount of time for the least amount of money.
• Animals are treated with hormones, feed additives, and antibiotics to boost their productivity, promote their growth, minimize the health problems that come from eating a high-starch diet and counteract the unsanitary, unnatural conditions of living in stressful, crowded conditions.
• 20 million pounds of antibiotics are given to animals every year!
• The USDA estimates that 70% of all food-borne illness in the United States can be traced to meat.
• These grain feedlots also cause dramatic pollution to land, air and water.

We at Taqwa Eco-Food look for and purchase animals that are:

Pasture Raised…

Grass is the natural diet of cows and sheep.

Our sheep and cows graze on pasture or stored forage from birth to market, never leaving the farm. They live such stress-free lives that they are rarely sick and never require the use of pharmaceutical drugs.

As in nature, their rate of growth is determined by their health and the quality of the forage, not hormonal implants or growth-promoting additives.

For all these reasons and more, their products are healthy, wholesome, and natural in every sense of the word.

The meat is leaner with less cholesterol and calories and more protein.

Nutritional benefits include:

• Conjugated linoleic acids;
• Omega 3 fatty acids;
• Vitamin E;
• Vitamin A.

Poultry are also raised humanely in the outdoors. They are not confined in cages or in poultry barns which is often referred to as “cage-free.”

To learn more, click on the following links:

“Please Kill Me” (Article Published in the Chicago Reader on June 29, 2007)

“Health Benefits of Eating Dhabiha Meat”

“Factory Farm Pollution” (Taken from Lawyers and Settlements; Published on August 7, 2007)