I am a sheep farmer and  take many sheepman/woman holidays (sheepdog 
trials) out west. Just about every sheep producers in the flyover states can 
only afford to graze their sheep,most owns 25,000 to 800,000 acres that are 
arid lands. Another words,usage of pesticides/herbicides are out of question 
and grain feeding is not practical (expensive) due to sheep spreading over 
extensive grounds.
Down in Arizona/New Mexico,sheep are grazed over the state and federal lands 
and are tended by Basque shepherds.I could assure you those sheep have never 
seen a single grain albeit what may be at the top of a stalk of a grass.

Unless you all buy a lamb or two from postage stamp sized yard growers where 
they need to fatten the lambs with grain,you all are quite safe assuming 
lambs are grass fed.

Organic growers will feed their animals grains providing the feed are also 
certified organic as we have many farms in the East coast.

Beef cattle  in the flyover states are another ball game,cows are grazed but 
calves are sold to feed lots where they are grained with heavy anti biotic 
usage. If you all come across a cattle ranch,you can stop and try to buy a 
calf or a cow and have it butchered to ensure you will be getting a grass 
fed meat.

Halal meat buyers don't really care where they get their lambs,especially in 
the East coast,they go from one small farm to another picking up what they 
wish to sell and animals are taken to Halal meat packer plant to be 
butchered. Some plant lockers will not accept halal type of butchering as 
they follow Dr.Temple Grandin's recommendations  for humane handling of 
livestock.


Inci Willard


guess though one cannot assume grassfed when one talks about Halal...

Marilyn

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On 2010-02-02, at 8:44 AM, Ken O'Neill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Good point. During the  12 years I lived in  Tucson, the Caravan  market
> carried grass fed halal lamb from Willcox,Arizona.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List 
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> On Behalf Of Marilyn Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: In the US Halal beef/lamb is probably grass fed
>
> I Agree.
>
> I inquired about Halal meat at a Muslim grocery store near me and  whether 
> it
>
> was grass fed - the shopkeeper replied that Halal referred only to the
> method of slaughter (he drew his finger across his throat). I asked 
> whether
> it was organic and he said no.
>
> Marilyn