Subscription Service Delivers Affordable Grass-fed Beef

By Lorrie Baumann

Plaid Cow Society is a new subscription service, launched in late September, that delivers fresh grass-fed beef to customers in eight western states. In October, the service will expand to offer nationwide deliveries.

Founder and CEO Travis Scarpace says that the idea behind Plaid Cow Society was born with a high school friend who now owns a CrossFit gym, who told him that his clients were looking for better sources for the grass-fed and finished, hormone-free and antibiotic free meat protein that they needed to support a Paleo lifestyle. “You might be onto something. Let me get back to you,” Scarpace, a veteran of the meat industry, told him. That was about a year and a half ago, and the result is now ready to roll out.

Plaid Cow Society, based in Pasadena, California, is working with West Coast ranchers to ensure a supply of beef that’s lived on grass for its entire life. No antibiotics or hormones are given to the animals to encourage them to grow faster or to develop more muscle mass, and they’re fed no corn at all. “We try to treat our animals with the most dignity that we possibly can,” Scarpace said. “When we’re working with ranchers, that’s what we’re looking for.”

“Just because a grocery store’s label says vegetarian fed, it does not mean that the cow ate grass its whole life,” he said.

Plaid Cow Society meat is trimmed to remove all of the visible fat, so that what the customer ends up buying is just the protein. “A lot of times in the grocery store, the steaks are 20 to 50 percent fat per pound, which means that the customer is paying for that fat,” Scarpace said.

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“We’re trying to open the lines of communication. Our packaging is very clear on what we do and what we don’t,” he continued. “It’s just little simple things like that that we’re trying to do with the consumer.”

Meat is shipped out from the USDA-inspected southern California processing plant in recyclable gel-packed containers that keep it cold without freezing it in time to be at the customer’s home by Friday. “The product that’s shipped out that day has been processed that day, so that our turnaround from farm to table is incredibly fast,” Scarpace said. “The whole thing is recyclable top to bottom. That was huge. We wanted something that was sustainable, which was not easy.”

Although Plaid Cow Society is a subscription box, Scarpace has eliminated the subscription commitment. There are no member fees, Plaid Cow may be canceled at any time and members have the option to skip a week’s delivery.

Deliveries are separated into plans: one-person plan will receive 12 cuts delivered every month while the two-person plan includes 12 cuts delivered every two weeks. Currently Plaid Cow Society is available to be shipped to Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Colorado and California with more states to be added as the brand grows.