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