Resources....

I'm going to regurgitate two excellent websites that I found thanks to Shreve at The Daily Coyote (http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/):

http://www.eatwild.com/

and

http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Resources2.html

These are awesome resources! (Yet another reason of why I love 'The Daily Coyote'.)

Check out Shreve's post here:
http://dailycoyotefaq.blogspot.com/2008/08/cows-cruelty.html

She writes: "The thing that is so horrifying to me is that 90% of the meat people eat is from cows that have spent a year - more than half their life - in feedlots. The animals are completely contained, with no grass, no space to move, wallowing in their own refuse, fed horrible things with the sole purpose of having them gain weight as fast as possible for maximimum profit.

The best thing anyone can do if they want to support the humane treatment of the animals we eat is buy only grass-fed, grass-fattened beef - these are cows that spend their whole life on pasture. The way the industry works now, ranchers raise calves for about 9 months and then sell them to middle-men who put them on feedlots and "finish" the calves, and from there they go to the consumer. "