I don't know if anyone here cares enough to go to the trouble/expense of getting beef from cattle fed no grains, but I remember how it was more or less impossible to find no added-feed beef on the mainland and, well... I mentioned awhile back that there is plenty of pastured-only beef to be found here on the big island with its year round grazing potential. With some aging its reputation as tough and leathery is entirely unfounded. While there is little marbling, there is plenty of surface fat on the better cuts--sometimes a full inch or more on New York strip. Melisa and I have no trouble eating 15 lbs a week of this stuff when we buy it--rarely cooked though. Anyway, in talking to my local butcher (a great fellow who started a coop to promote the local beef) he tells me that there is a jerky outfit in Denver who is "importing" frozen eye of round and that the shipping comes out to be about 40 cents per pound. Since there are direct flights from Honolulu to most major mainland cities, he thinks that beef could be shipped fresh to most anywhere on the mainland for close to that shipping price. The catch is that one pays for a container which holds about 300 pounds on meat. So if you bought only 100 pounds the shipping price pound would be about a $1.20/lb. You would need to deal with it from the receiving airport onwards. So if you don't mind frozen (and have the freezer space) you could possibly deal with 300 pounds between a couple families. Or if there was a larger group living in the same area you might be able to swing it fresh (since this meat will age well over 12 weeks no problem). An order might be all prime cuts (like strips and ribeyes) or an unprocessed side which your local butcher could cut to your specs, perhaps even strips of round for a huge batch of room-temp jerky. The bone marrow is the best I have ever tasted, but I don't know if it would be worth including a bunch of marrow bones in an order since most of the bone is inedible (though I suppose it could be ground somehow...?) It will take some asking around to get the actual contacts needed on this end, but I'd more than happy to find out the details if there is some interest among a group of listers here--pretty hard I'd imagine since it seems to be a pretty far flung bunch here (though the LA raw food support group might put their heads together??). But I thought I should mention it as an option if anybody might be interested. (Of course, I have no financial interest in any of this.) If anyone does have interest or more questions, it might be best to post them to the list (not to me privately) so folks can see who is curious (and where they live). In other words, I don't really want to organize anything--just help anyone else who might... Cheers, Kirt Secola /\ Nieft [log in to unmask]