La Pietà Ranch

08/30/2026

Happy to announce that we have turkeys!!! 🦃

08/29/2026

Some of our ranch hippos enjoying their mud pool 🐽🥰

08/20/2026

Will the mud ball continue to grow or will it finally fall off? 🤔

06/22/2026

Best way to end Father’s Day! Relaxin’ in the horse trough 😆🤠👍

06/19/2026

Our girl blessed us with 10 beautiful babies last night!

This is her second litter, and she is doing amazing.

Unfortunately, we did lose one this morning… besides that, the babies are nursing great!

06/16/2026

This is few of the reasons why buying pasture raised pork is so much healthier and better for you.

On top of our pigs foraging and eating off the land we do supplement with feed for ours pigs. We make sure the feed is free of any harmful ingredients and make sure they are getting everything they need.

From our experience of butchering and eating our own pasture raised pork the meat is richer, leaner and similar to beef.

The cost may be higher than your average store bought meat, but we can promise we aren’t feeding our pigs any harmful ingredients, moldy food or plastics- yes, you read that correctly!

Our pigs are our babies. We give them treats, clean water, names and enough land to roam so they are living stress free life and in return they give us highly nutritional and delicious meat! 🐖

American pork is banned or tightly restricted in roughly 160 countries mainly because of ractopamine, a pharmaceutical growth enhancer. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, says it is safe for people to eat, many other nations follow a “precautionary principle” because they argue there is not enough evidence proving its long term safety.

Ractopamine is a beta agonist medication mixed into pig feed shortly before slaughter to boost protein production, creating leaner animals and bigger profits for producers. However, it faces worldwide pushback for several reasons.

First, opponents highlight the shortage of strong human safety studies. One small trial run by the manufacturer, Elanco, found that some human volunteers reported heart pounding and palpitations. Other possible human health concerns raised by international health advocates include anxiety, increased heart rate and cardiovascular strain.

The drug has also been connected to serious harmful effects in pigs, including lameness, broken legs, tremors, hyperactivity, and higher stress levels. In fact, ractopamine has been associated with more pig deaths and illnesses than any other livestock pharmaceutical currently on the market.

Furthermore, nations such as China, the world’s biggest pork consumer, enforce a zero tolerance policy because traditional diets often include pig offal, internal organs, where ractopamine residues can build up at much higher levels.
It is estimated that 80 to 90% of American pigs are “treated” with ractopamine.

Because of this, when American pork is actually exported to any of these nations, U.S. companies often produce two versions of the meat. One for Americans containing ractopamine and one for foreign markets without it. Other examples of this practice include Skittles sold in Europe being colored with natural extracts like turmeric instead of the synthetic dyes used in America. Similarly, popular cereals like Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops are reformulated for European and Japanese markets to remove preservatives like BHT.

What do you think about this?

06/04/2026

Meet Ace, our neighborhood Brangus bull! ♠️🐮

He joined our herd this week to spend some quality time with our heifers.

05/31/2026

As we end May on a good note, we are entering baby making month for our girls! Praying for a successful turn out for us. 🐄🙂🙏

05/24/2026

Happy Pentecost!! 🕊🔥

05/16/2026

Look who joined the La Pietà family last night! Meet Liz, a beautiful angus heifer. Only a week old with a spunky attitude. 🐮💕