Roberta:
> also read about the Harris Ranch beef - they
>have a program which operates under special federal guidelines that
>includes a lot of testing for residual toxins - theirs is NOT organic,
>but it IS very well monitored and no weird scary stuff is added to the
>food or injected into the animal (as is the standard USA practice with
>cattle-livestock).

I've eaten Harris w/o trouble, but the meat is heavily marbled--an
indication of a high grain diet, if that matters....

Cheers,
Kirt