Why don't you make it with Tallow?

This one may stir up some controversy, but if you really are curious, I'll give you my opinion. And that's all it is, my opinion. 

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I think tallow is wonderful. If you are interested in tallow, then I'm sure that you also know exactly what tallow is. Tallow is the fat from beef cattle. It can be rendered down...which means that it is heated so that impurities, like any meat that was missed in the butchering process, don't end up in the final product. After rendering the fat down, you are left with a creamy white fat that is great for cooking, frying, lip balms, lotions, and soaps. 

I love that tallow is one more part of cattle that doesn't go to waste. Cattle are such amazing animals, and all of what they give should be made use of. It's how we properly honor the life they lived. 

So, why don't I use it? 

Well, first off, we mostly raise longhorns, right now. Longhorns are a super lean animal, and although I have asked my local processor to save tallow for me, if they can, there hasn't been much to save.

Why don't I just buy it? 

The easiest option for me to get tallow would be to get it from the local processors. However, the way that works is that they take the fat from the animals that come in, and sell it. Only the rancher that raised them, knows what those cattle were exposed to. So, how do I know what they have been given? Were they recently injected with something? Were they raised in an area that was sprayed? What chemicals, heavy metals, toxins, etc. have they been subjected to? 

Doesn't it just move on through the animal over time? How about when the fat is rendered? Doesn't that take care of it? 

Nope. It sure doesn't. 

For instance, 'injections' contain a special ingredient (that we will not name here for the sake of my website staying up and operational) that does something that I call, "Playing the Taxi Driver." All injections, that I have researched, contain this special ingredient. Even the B12 my doctor wanted to give me contains it, as does many of your pickled goods in the grocery store. What this ingredient does is it binds to things like aluminum and other ingredients, and it drives them through cell walls. 

This ingredient, even as a stand alone ingredient, is not a good thing. It can cause Alzheimer's and other neurological issues. Let alone, the fact that it helps other dangerous ingredients to penetrate cell walls. 

This means that products that contain this ingredient, have lodged into the fat, muscle, liver, brain, and every single part of the animal or person that it was put into. The problem is, once there, it's next to impossible to detox it back out. 

So, with that said, I won't even buy tallow from someone that says they have grass fed tallow. That "grass fed" label just means that for the last so many months of their life, they weren't fed grain. It means nothing when it comes to the question of, "Were they raised 100% natural, with no interference of manmade chemicals introduced into either their environment or into their body?" 

We cannot control it all, but we can certainly try to control as much as humanly possible. So, there's some things that we just bypass. And until we can find a farmer that believes in raising their animals pretty similar to us, or we get our herd adjusted to where we have more tallow coming from our own cattle, we are just gonna have to bypass using tallow in our products.