View Single Post
  #12 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
BOB BOB is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 174
Default Grass Fed vs. Grain Fed Beef: The Cook Off

Dee Randall wrote:
:: "Alex Rast" > wrote in message
:: ...
::: at Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:27:14 GMT in
<52h922hfjnm5gh4s4k0p9vqqs1nm8d94st@
::: 4ax.com>, (Terry Pulliam Burd) wrote :
:::
:::: After the recent discussion about grass fed beef vs. grain fed
beef, I
:::: ordered our usual Allen Bros. ribeyes (grain fed)
::::
http://www.allenbrothers.com/ and also ordered our newly-found
Neff
:::: Family Ranch ribeyes (grass fed) http://www.nfrnaturalbeef.com/
:::
::: I wonder if that's the deciding factor? I'd hazard a guess that
the
::: quality
::: of grain fed beef and of grass-fed beef ranges from farm to farm.
And I
::: have a suspicion that quality differences between farms are more
::: significant than those between feeding practices. In other words,
there
::: are
::: probably good and bad grass-fed meats, just as there are good and
bad
::: grain-fed beef. And a good grain-fed vs. a bad grass-fed will win,
and
::: vice
::: versa - so that there's virtually no way to get an "objective"
test,
::: unless
::: you find a farm that does *both* types.
:::
:::
::: --
::: Alex Rast
::
:: http://www.mercola.com/2005/apr/23/beef.htm
:: When you think of a cow in its natural environment, doing what it
naturally
:: does, you likely will picture it grazing. Is it grazing on stalks
of corn?
:: Of course not! It's grazing on GRASS.
::
:: Grass is a cow's natural food. Corn and other grains are not.
::
:: Dee Dee

I dunno. Have you ever seen a cow pasture next to a corn field?
Every time I have and the corn is nearing maturity, the cows are over
at the fence munching on the corn. I can't say whether they are
eating the grain or the stalks, but I'll bet they are eating some of
both.

BOB


--
Raw Meat Should NOT Have An Ingredients List