We bought 3 types of butter recently because I want you to see the difference in color based on the cow’s diet. This is important because there are some loud voices in conventional agriculture that say “calories are calories”, doesn’t matter whether the cow eats donuts or grass. The focus is on volume and production, not on nutritional benefits for the cow and thereby the human.
It’s obvious looking at these three types of butter that more fresh grass equals a darker colored butter. So what does that mean? The darker yellow means more beta carotene. Beta carotene is a precursor to vitamin A, and supports vision along with immune function. I have also read that it protects skin from oxidative stress. Additionally, more fresh grass translates into more vitamin K2 in the butter. K2 is very important for our body’s ability to absorb calcium into bones and teeth, so it does not deposit in soft tissue or arteries.
It’s still important to know your farmer because “Big Food” has caught onto consumer interest and has ways to modify color without grass.
So what color is your butter?
This is also why I don’t just take any old fish oil. The fermented cod liver oil is mixed with concentrated butter oil from cows on Spring grass. This supplies the K2 I mentioned. It helps our body utilize the benefits of the cod liver oil, which is fermented not high-heat processed like many fish oils. Get yours at Green Pasture with 10% off using promo code “ALISON” at check out. https://greenpasture.org/
The CDC says lettuce from Taco Bell that originated in Mexico is linked to a parasite-caused, explosive diarrhea outbreak in the Midwest. Of course no health official or media outlet is telling people NEVER to eat salad again. But when raw milk makes headlines, that’s exactly what we see. The reality is that there are health benefits in raw foods. Eating anything is a risk. If you want to take your risk at Taco Bell, go ahead, I stand by your freedom to do so. I will continue to drink raw milk. Everyone MYOB.
Don’t forget your freedom to buy Green Pasture’s fermented cod liver/concentrated butter oil! I used to have chronic cavities and this stuff saved my teeth long before I overhauled my diet. Use promo code “ALISON” at check out for 10% off.
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The kids and I want to get a barn cat but Lynn has put his foot down. No cats! Why? Because he is allergic and is SURE we will eventually bring the cat inside despite our promises that it will remain an outdoors animal. Where does he get this crazy idea?
As they say, it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. So I keep my smile nice and pretty for all the times I have to bat my eyes and say, “whoops!” I take the fermented cod liver/concentrated butter oil blend from @greenpastureproducts. It healed my chronic battle with cavities 15 years ago. If you use “ALISON” as your promo code at check out, you get 10% off. https://greenpasture.org/
By the way, if you want to see this video with music in the background, here is the YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNIToesCYA?feature=share
Owning livestock is like running a suicide prevention hotline. Almost every day, one of the animals is trying to bring itself to a slow and painful death, or sometimes a quick one. When I came out to put the chickens back in the coop one night recently, I saw that our rooster and a hen had gotten stuck in between the tarp and the coop. I have no idea how long they’d been there. What they were trying to do in privacy, I don’t even want to know. But they could have died from heat exhaustion in this weather.
This is why I avoid Chicken brain by taking the fermented cod liver/concentrated butter oil from Green Pasture. It’s a great food-based source of Omega 3s - and because it is fermented unlike most fish oils, it preserves nutritional value. Not to mention, the concentrated butter oil brings in necessary vitamin K to absorb the vitamin D and vitamin A in the cod liver oil. Get 10% off at checkout with promo code “ALISON”. https://greenpasture.org/
(Also, no Farm Report live ...
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-phone-records.html
Government intimidation tactics.
