What the Label “Born, Raised, and Harvested in the USA” Means
A package of meat can include a lot of claims on its label: grass-fed, pasture-raised, non-GMO, and sometimes a line saying the animal was born, raised, and harvested in the USA. That last claim is about origin and tells you where the animal's life began and ended. It doesn't tell you how the animal was raised, which is why it's worth reading alongside the other labels. The same goes for grass fed meats and products like grass fed beef tallow, where the full set of claims gives you a clearer picture of where your food comes from.
TL; DR
- A “Born, raised, and harvested in the USA" label means what it says and more.
- Reliable farms make it easy to verify where an animal lived and grazed.
- Meat that stays close to home tends to arrive fresher and tastes like it.
You Know Where the Animal Was Raised
This means the animal lived in the United States for its entire life, not just the final months before processing. You can order a pasture raised whole chicken from a farm in the U.S. and know that it has actually been in the U.S. since it hatched.
There Is Reliable Information About the Farm
Farms that keep animals close to home can speak plainly about grazing and care. Ordering pastured chicken online from a source that’s willing to share details about the chicken feed, the pastures, and the steps they take to make farming sustainable gives you a real answer about how a farm raised your food.
The Meat Wasn't Shipped Overseas
Meat that crosses oceans before reaching a warehouse spends extra days in transit. This can result in freezer burn and a less-than-fresh product. A cut born, raised, and harvested in the USA skips this journey to deliver fresher meat to your door.
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You Can Taste the Quality of the Meat
This traceability adds up to something you can taste. Meat from animals that grazed on healthy pasture close to home tends to have a richer flavor and better texture due to their better quality of life and diet than conventional meats, which might have traveled farther, sat longer, and been exposed to unfavorable conditions.
About Primal Pastures
What started with 50 backyard chickens in Southern California has grown into a nationwide mission to raise the healthiest animals possible and bring clean, honest food to families across the country. Primal Pastures offers pasture raised pork, corn and soy free chicken, and grass fed and finished beef raised the way nature intended.
See what born, raised, and harvested in the USA looks like at https://primalpastures.com/
