I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend! If you haven’t already, make sure to check out the really cool giveaway I am hosting right now with Actual Organics (just two days left!). They are giving out a sampler pack of organic perfumes and I am very excited about this product. I will hopefully be sharing some Valentine worthy recipes soon. But before I get to that, I realized that I needed to address an issue that got brought up about one of our sponsors, US Wellness Meats.
Some of you know US Wellness Meats (they were also one of the sponsors for the Wise Tradition’s conference and they served some of their delectable meats at the conference). This small time company sells meat from family run farms (you can read about the farms here).We love them for their commitment to raising high quality grass fed meats and that’s why we have them as our sponsors. We also have found them to be delightful people.
Because of their unusual high standards with hard to find products (like delicious grass fed liverwurst, salami and summer sausage and pastured chicken livers for example), we have been thrilled to be working with them. Recently another blogger with a severe allergy to corn reacted to meatballs she made using their ground beef among other ingredients ( although she had not reacted to some other cuts of meat she had from them). She then contacted John Wood who runs the company to ask about any corn derived additives to the meat. John was surprised to hear that someone would have a reaction to their meat because they actually sell to a lot of high allergy people, but he (being the great guy that he is) started working on tracking down any possible point that anything corn derived could have touched the meat. He told her that it may have been lactic acid, most often corn derived, which was USDA required to use to spray on the carcass when it was first butchered (the part that is sprayed is cut off when they break the animal down into smaller pieces). This blogger then posted comments on several of our blogs (including mine) and posted on her own blog about how “US Wellness Meats are contaminated” with GMO corn because of the lactic acid spray.
After much research (thanks to Ann Marie from cheeseslave.com), we feel that we have adequate information to address this issue.
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