Get lean on veal

…  Lean, Environmentally clean, Appetizing and Nutritious

The Grober Group of Delft Blue, Ecolait and Provitello Farms contribute to the sustainability of the dairy industry. We are committed to providing healthy products for our customers, industry leading standards for our animals’ welfare and health, and respect for the goals of sustainability – reduce, recycle, reuse.

Milk fed veal is the cleanest meat you can serve your family and guests. It is at the leading edge of sustainability in the agriculture industry. Delft Blue, Ecolait and Provitello farms are the best example of how to take a waste product and make it into a viable healthy food. Veal calves originate as an “unwanted” product from the dairy industry where only 0.01% of bull calves are needed. These animals are then raised under humane conditions designed to provide meat eating consumers with a line of products that are a good source of protein, vitamin B12, zinc and dietary iron. Milk fed veal is lean and is one of the meats doctors recommend to young children and individuals who have digestive tract problems.

Recently, MacLean’s magazine in a March issue titled “SAVE the Planet…Stop Eating MEAT” stated “vast lakes of manure dot North America’s heartland streaming nitrous oxide into the air, while the antibiotics fed to our sick grain-fed cattle ooze into our waterways.” At Delft Blue we are turning our manure into electricity though an onsite bio-digester. (enough electricity to power 500 homes 24 hours a day 365 days a year). The digestate that is produced by this process then becomes a pathogen free nutrient that helps green fields and plants that are needed in the environment to improve air quality. Ultimately, the heat produced by biogas generators will heat our barns and milk replacer to reduce our demand for fossil fuels. And finally some of our biogas will be enhanced to power our farm vehicles.

Due to the environment in which our veal calves are raised, they are generally very healthy. They are monitored 24/7 by skilled staff and only individual animals with health problems are treated following strict withdrawal protocols.

It maybe true that cattle produce up to18% of the greenhouse gases, particularly methane.

However, milk fed calves produce very little methane as they don’t ruminate. (burping up food from their second stomach) This only happens when calves or mature cows eat grass and grain.

Also “organically” grown meat is produced by animals eating grass and often grains that requires land tillage which requires use of fossil fuels to till and harvest.

The Grober Group is committed to:

• Optimizing the health of the animals under our care
• Providing products that are good for your health
• Creating sustainable processes that will improve our environment.

Remember Get LEAN On Veal it is good for you and good for the environment.