[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Schlenkatank wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]handlebar wrote:
Grain fed beef is the norm because the taste of the meat is largely derived from the fat in it and that taste has made grain fed beef preferential. I wonder if Tanker has ever even taken a bite of grass fed beef. [/quote]
I have, it is basically the only beef I eat. This summer I will be purchasing a small freezer to store a large quantity of grass fed beef raised right in my own town. I know the man that raised the animals, I know how he treated them, and I know i will be purchasing an excellent product.
The taste of grain fed beef has not made it preferential, it’s the price. The taste of grain fed beef is like the taste of shit in comparison to grass fed beef. I highly doubt you have ever had quality grass fed beef, if you did you would have had a meatgasm. [/quote]
You might want to consider that me being several decades older than you might just have predisposed me to doing a lot more things in this life than you have. You picked the wrong guy to engage when it comes to a variety of eating experiences.
I have eaten far more grass fed beef; grain fed beef; forage fed deer, elk, antelope, moose, wild sheep, black bear, bison, domestic and mountain goat, and other stuff I can’t even remember than you probably ever will.
The taste of meat is largely determined by the fat. In wild game it is generally common to trim as much of the fat as possible to remove the gamey taste. With beef the fat is generally desirable (to a degree - a degree that varies with the individual).
I will admit someone can eat a lot of grass fed meat of whatever kind and develop a taste for it and actually prefer it over grain fed beef. It can also work in reverse. Your palate is adaptable.
You are wrong to say, “The taste of grain fed beef has not made it preferential, it’s the price.” The consumer makes the decision. The rancher can breed differently, and has, to accommodate the fat content of the final product. Likewise, the feedlot business can/could adjust its finishing diet to accomplish the same.
If the consumer truly preferred grass fed beef, you’d have feedlots finishing their cattle with grass hay. Corn fields everywhere would be plowed under and planted to grass. The price of beef would then skyrocket as well and many consumers would not be getting the beef they prefer.
Do you honestly think you can speak for an entire nation of people and TELL THEM what kind of beef they will and will not like? Or are you too, “Obama-esque” in that like the coal industry YOU know what’s best for America and YOU think the conventional beef industry should be put out of business?[/quote]
Push, you live in Montana. If you really hadn’t tried grass fed beef than i would assume you were living inside the only Walmart in your state : )
Nope, I’m not “Obamaesque” in that regard, I stated that Americans are confronted with a choice on this very important issue. One way or another, we will eventually have to start depending on smaller farms, but that should come about through eductaion and choice, not force.
You are right to say that palates are adaptable, but grass fed beef really does have a new taste all of its own in my opinion. One of the best taste experiences of my life occurred when I had a grass fed cheeseburger for the first time. i could literally not believe what I had been missing. i was reminded of discovering the tastes of many of the animals you described, wild bear just doesn’t taste like chicken you know?
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