RE: Where can I get glands?

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I'd be interested in any discussion/information on this topic as well.

THanks,

> Several people have highly recommended that I try eating raw glands

(from

> grass-fed ruminants, of course) as well as organs, but to date I've

been

> unable to find any. Can anyone suggest a source? One farmer told

me it's

> illegal to sell them, so if this is a raw milk type of situation,

please

> email me privately rather than endangering any farmers.

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>>>>Several people have highly recommended that I try eating raw glands

(from

grass-fed ruminants, of course) as well as organs, but to date I've been

unable to find any. Can anyone suggest a source? One farmer told me it's

illegal to sell them, so if this is a raw milk type of situation, please

email me privately rather than endangering any farmers. (Please don't

recommend North Star Bison; I react very poorly to whatever bacteria is in

their meat, even though the liver tasted very clean.)

----->paul, did you write recently that northstar was having a problem with

some type of worms in their organ meats? I had wanted to order a bunch of

organs/glands from them (the only source i know of) but am now hesitant to

do so because i recall you writing something about this. if anyone's given

you other good sources offlist, would you mind forwarding them to me? I'd

really like to get some good organs/glands other than liver/heart/kidney

which is readily available to me.

as for liver - i've tried raw liver from lamb, bison and cow/steer, and from

different farms. i believe what i've found is that it's not really the

*species* that makes a difference in palatability to me, but the *farm.* I

just pulled two packs of liver out of my freezer a few days ago - each

lamb - each from a different farm. one was dark blood red, the other light

brown. i selected the red one, and sure enough - it was quite palatable. i

had almost given up on liver because the last one i ate was beef liver from

a diff. farm that tasted awful. yet, i think i recall having beef liver that

was much more palatable in the past. I'm guessing it has do to with the

animal's diet and perhaps the freshness of the liver when it's packaged.

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Suze-

>----->paul, did you write recently that northstar was having a problem with

>some type of worms in their organ meats?

Not exactly. I got some bison sirloins and liver from them, and while the

sirloins tasted kind of spoiled, the livers tasted very clean, but both

made me sick. Not, I think, because of worms, but (I'm assuming) because

of a dirty processing plant. Whatever it was, I STILL have to take

probiotics semi-regularly even though it's been, I don't know, a couple

months since I last ate anything from North Star.

>if anyone's given

>you other good sources offlist, would you mind forwarding them to me?

If I get them, you'll have them, but so far I've had no luck. I'm starting

to think about ordering them from North Star and then putting them in the

chest freezer for a month or two before eating them and hoping that that

does the trick.

>I'd

>really like to get some good organs/glands other than liver/heart/kidney

>which is readily available to me.

Me too, though liver doesn't seem too available right now.

>yet, i think i recall having beef liver that

>was much more palatable in the past. I'm guessing it has do to with the

>animal's diet and perhaps the freshness of the liver when it's packaged.

This could be, but I've yet to find beef liver I could eat raw, even though

it sometimes tastes OK cooked, and I never buy non-grassfed anymore. By

contrast, every time I've gotten bison liver it's been at least

tolerable. I sure wish I could find some grassfed bison or lamb liver

right now, though. I only have two packages left, and they'll be gone in

less than a week.

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