Rent & Beef

If you had to list two of the pillars of American existence you
might choose Liberty & Justice. Or, maybe Equality &
Opportunity. Well, how about Rent & Beef?


Rent


The pandemic has forced us to confront a number of economic
issues that were due for examination. One of them is the rental
market.


Even without the added stress of reduced pay or a lost job,
renting can be a strained relationship, for both landlord and
tenant. in 2019 Marco Nelson came up with an app called Rentcheck
and it's already in use in all 50 States.


If you’ve ever rented an apartment or an office, you’ll have gone
through the usually upbeat experience of moving in… and the
typically much more painful process of moving out, which is
usually the argument over the security deposit. The tenant wants
her total security deposit back. The landlord says he’s not
giving it back because of the hole in the wall. The tenant swears
it was like that when she moved in… You’ve no doubt been through
something similar to this, as either a tenant or a landlord.


What Rentcheck does is walk you through a series of steps that
documents and records a tenant’s move in, and move out. Both the
tenant and landlord have a set of time-stamped photos that they
sign off on. And that, simply and efficiently, does away with all
those ugly disagreements.


Beef


Dr. Shannon Gonsulin’s family have been raising cattle in South
Central Louisiana since 1770. No, that is not a typo. SEVENTEEN
70. But it wasn't until 236 years later, in 2006, that Gonsulin
Land & Cattle officially switched to producing fully
grass-fed cows, with no hormones or processed grains.


Dr. Shannon Gonsulin comes from a family of ranchers. He's also a
veterinarian. Dr. Shannon (as everyone calls him) owns Bayou
Teche Veterinary Clinic, in Breaux Bridge, and Atchafalya Animal
Clinic in Morgan City.


Being a rancher of organic grass-fed beef and a vet is a great
combo. Not  because you don't have to pay vet bills when a
cow gets sick, but because when you produce beef that is
guaranteed to be hormone-free and anti-biotic-free, cows don't
have the luxury of having a sick day. if they do they have to be
removed from the herd and that severely impacts the farm's bottom
line. So Dr. Shannon is very involved with preventive medicine.
If you can prevent a cow from having a single sick day its whole
life, are there lessons for human medicine?


Photos from this by Jill Lafleur are at our website. More
conversations about grass fed pork are here.


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