We’d love to use this opportunity to share our latest blog posts, recipes from PJ Vadas, yummy product news, our Farmer Angus family and friends, and a little inspiration from me.
Latest blog posts
Meat scientist Dr Francois Mellett has been the lone voice pointing out the major issues with Dr Aaron Motsoaledi abandoning his duties in May of 2019. The result of Dr Aaron recusing himself is that since then South Africa has been the only country in the world without legislation defining what meat is. The result has been that the poor are being screwed. The major retail chains are selling them so-called meat which in some cases is only 65% meat.
Bulelwa Payi is the journalist at the Weekend Argus who wrote this excellent article. It’s a great summary of where we are and it is shocking that the RPO, SAMPA and DAFF are in support of this anti-poor legislation.
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Eating steak only is an exercise in waste. Around 12% of the beef carcass is steak. We recently launched a product that takes care of this waste. It’s called BEEF IN A BOX. You can now buy a representation of a whole animal in a box. What I mean by this is that in the box are products in proportion to where they come from in the animal. For example in the box is 2 kgs/litres of bone broth as bones are just over 20% of the carcass.
Cooking with PJ Vadas
Spending time indoors means you get to explore your kitchen and experiment more with flavours and spices. PJ Vadas has the best recipe for you to try this month – Masala Beef Shin Curry.
Farmer Angus family and friends
Big Danie farms near Reitz in the Free State and he is going against the family grain and most of his neighbours by farming regeneratively. I met him via grazing guru Johann Zietsman whose very informative website. He thinks he is Moses walking around with that staff but he parts cattle and not water.
What inspires me
In no way, am I trying to be insensitive to the deaths of 10,048 people from Coronavirus in the last 3 months but as Tamara Pearson, who is a long time journalist based in Latin America and author of The Butterfly Prison, points out we have completely lost the context of real epidemics that go on all around us every day.