October 27, 2025 , Texas Grass Fed Meat

Ted's Story - Improving Nutrition Through Meat

At Slanker’s Grass-Fed Meats, we’ve always believed that what you eat should match how your body was designed to function. Our founder, Ted Slanker, didn’t just talk about that belief—he tested it.

After years of eating only grass-fed and Omega-3 balanced meats, Ted had his blood analyzed to see what the results would show. The outcome was exactly what he expected: excellent lipid health, ideal balance, and proof that grass-fed meats truly support the body the way nature intended.

Why Grass-Fed Meats Are the Perfect Food

100% grass-fed meats—from any animal—are the most complete and balanced foods you can eat. Our Omega-3 poultry and pork meet that same standard because they deliver the right balance of Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids. Below you’ll find a link to Ted’s blood lipid test, which shows the results of living this lifestyle for years.

Few people realize that true grass-fed and Omega-3 meats supply every nutrient the body needs in proper proportion. They are the only food group that can be eaten exclusively while maintaining optimal function. But that’s only true if your meat is genuinely 100% grass-fed and Omega-3 rich—and if it’s cooked properly, since overcooking destroys important nutrients.

If that sounds extreme, it’s only because modern nutrition has drifted far from nature. From the beginning of time, animal life has depended on the green leaf. The chemical difference between a green leaf and the seed of a grass plant (grain) is enormous. Yet our entire food system today revolves around grain. That shift—away from the leaf and toward the seed—is what drives most chronic disease.

Most nutrition research focuses on supplementing deficiencies caused by a grain-based diet rather than addressing the root problem. The only real fix is to stop relying on grain, nuts, seeds, and sugars.

Our nation’s obsession with Omega-3 fatty acids exists only because our food system is based on grain. If it were based on green plants, no one would be talking about Omega-3 supplements at all. Nutrition is not about quantity—it’s about balance.

Ted’s blood test proves that balance can be achieved naturally. It’s not theory. It’s evidence.

Grass-Fed Beef in a Nutshell

For years, we’ve been told that grain-fed beef is “better.” But that idea collapses under real science. As the Angus Journal once noted, “For the ruminant animal, there’s nothing more natural than range.” Range means grass. Grain means feedlots and byproducts.

Cattle were designed to eat green plants, not grain. No species on Earth evolved eating grain—not even people. Diets overloaded with Omega-6 fatty acids (from grain and nuts) and lacking Omega-3s (from green plants) are directly tied to modern health issues: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune disorders, depression, and obesity. These aren’t “aging diseases.” They’re diet failures.

When scientists studied cell membranes, they found that when the Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio exceeds 4:1, the body starts to break down. Grain-fed beef often measures at 15:1, while grass-fed beef stays near 1:1. That’s the balance your body is built for.

And this problem extends beyond beef. All grain-fed animal products—poultry, pork, dairy, and even farmed fish—carry those same unhealthy ratios. Grain has replaced the green leaf throughout the entire food chain.

The Truth About Flavor and Quality

The beef industry still bases “quality” on fat content. The more fat, the higher the grade. But this grading system rewards the wrong kind of fat—Omega-6-heavy, low-nutrition fat.

Grass-fed beef tastes different because it is different. Its flavor comes from the meat itself, not from intramuscular fat. Its nutrients come from living grass, not from processed feed. Grass-fed beef is rich in CLA, beta carotene, and vitamins A and E, and it naturally contains the right balance of Omega-3s.

Yes, it cooks differently. It even looks and smells different. But when raised right and cooked right, grass-fed beef delivers true flavor and real health. Once you understand what your body was designed to eat, you’ll never want to go back.