Posted on 06/02/2015 8:08:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
not sure if it was grain or grass fed, but probably a little of both....
the biggest thing in the taste is the way the cow was put down...the guy shot him poorly and the cow staggered around for several minutes...apparently when an animal doesn't go down right away, the cow sends adrenaline into its tissues, giving the beef an off taste....
same goes for hunting. The gamiest tasting deer are from *ss shooters. Quick kills- yummy!
No only is grass-fed beef better for you, the milk from grass-fed cows is better for you too.
Fresh grass increases the vitamins in cows milk more than grain-fed, notably vitamins A and K. You can even see the higher carotene content in butter and dairy products from cows fed on rich pasture - more yellow than white. Vibrant and tender spring grass makes the best of the whole year.
I’ll just state my opinion. A steak from a corn fed cow can’t be beat. When my wife had her first sirloin at a Kansas City restaurant that served only corn fed beef she said “I didn’t know sirloin could taste that good.”
I like Red Meat ... granted pasture grazed Red Meat may have more nutrients (minerals) because they roam and feed over a larger area... doesn’t matter to me... I nutrify and eat lots of tasty animals from all over the planet.
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The equivalent portion of sockeye salmon serves up 65 times that much. “The omega-3s come from eating greens — grass if you’re a cow, algae if you’re a salmon,” says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. “If anything, omega-3s are one more reason to eat your veggies.” <<
Just to throw a bit of fish onto the BBQ...if it is a farm fish, fed grain, it does not have nearly that much Omega-3 in it. They even have to dye the fish pink to get that grey look out of those farm fish...yuck! Wild animals, hunted by bow is the best tasting. Try elk, done by a bow hunter some time. Anyone bow hunt a Sockeye?
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Hell... I'm an ol Fat man and I will not waste anything Bacon ... I also eat 6-12 eggs per day and for the last 12 years my Dr has been telling me to just eat the whites .. My blood reports still freak him out... my Cholesterol levels (by his Standards) are normal (and better than his).
PS In my book there is no such thing as good and bad Cholesterol .. takes both ... your brain and entire nervous system is made of Cholesterol ... not only that if you don't eat any... your Liver will MAKE IT ... it is essential. I Don't care ... I LOVE EGGS, especially fried in Bacon Grease!!! (with biscuits and sausage gravy)
Correct. I’ve done farming and am helping with ranching—which, these days, is really farming, too. Farmers are laughing with each other about the craze for so-called grass-fed cattle (cheap to raise, expensive meat to buy). But they don’t laugh about it in the presence of customers who pay outrageous prices for it.
...”Is Grass-Fed Really Better?”....YES!”
Oh my gosh is it ever better! .....For Moms Day my son bought Grass fed steaks...ribeye my favorite. I usually smoother a steak with butter to perk the flavor.....these steaks were the first EVER that didn’t need butter.
Oh my gosh were they delicious...best steak I ever had. Texture and taste outstanding! Oh what flavor, I could hardly believe the difference!
I think too long we’re so used to eating flavorless meats that when you have a “proper” piece of meat it’s a stunning experience....I know I was!
That's exactly right and was how it was with my first grass fed steak...am still stunned the difference...never had such a steak in any restaurant and I've eaten them at five stars too!
When I go to the meat market for hamburger I ask for it with the most fat...not least. I have to say my hamburgers are much better tasting with more fat...and certainly not dry like cooking with this lean stuff they push.
That’s an interesting story...reminded me of a pastor who went to the hills of the Carolina’s as a missionary. He said that in that area everything is smoothered and cooked in lard. So he also learned it was insulting not to “appreciate” their manner of cooking.
He also said the food was left on the table for hours...for any that might stop by would eat as well.
I can relate....I like the fat too...and also chicken skin...even as a child. Though I don’t go so far as sopping up the grease with bread....but have known those who do.
I also cook with bacon grease and what a difference that makes. For fried potatoes there’s nothing better...and I Love bacon.... fry it for munching like one would eat chips.
****” He said that in that area everything is smoothered and cooked in lard.” *****
REAL Lard ... NOT that Box Store Plastic Shelf Stable Margarine wanna be Crap (Hydrogenated or Partially Hydrogenated).
“REAL” Lard is SOOOOO Good, bit expensive these days and difficult to find. And yes the Grass fed kind is better.
I thank the pig that gave it’s all when I fry food or sop my bread.
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“I have to wonder how many of the proponents of “feed the cow only grass stems” on this thread have actually seen a cow on anything but TV much less raised them.”
This thread is amusing. We’ve been raising cattle on this ranch since the late 1880’s it’s about as free range as it get’s. Well over 100 years in the cattle business and this I can say without hesitation, a damn cow will eat anything it can get it’s lip’s around. They’ll eat grass, weed’s, tree’s, dead carcasses, bones of dead cow’s and dead deer. They’ll eat paper, plastic, strip anything rubber off your vehicle and I’ve even had them eat the belt’s off of pump jack’s. I had one that ate the coil wire off of a AJAX motor while it was still running (Bet that one made her udder shudder). They’ll drink salt water and love lapping up a little spilled crude oil. This is your average free range cow, these are the one’s hitting the markets.
And let me add that since they receive no corn or supplemental feeding they officially qualify as grass fed.
According to the first paragraph of the op you are wrong:
But only very marginally: An eight-ounce grass-fed burger has between 45 and 68 milligrams of omega-3s. The equivalent portion of sockeye salmon serves up 65 times that much. “The omega-3s come from eating greens — grass if you’re a cow, algae if you’re a salmon,” says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. “If anything, omega-3s are one more reason to eat your veggies.”
Grass fed is better for you because the cows on pasture have a different composition of fat (like that of wild game) than cows on grain (corn mostly).
The farming establishment has known about this for decades. I learned about it in agriculture school 30 years ago. Grain allows farmers or slaughterhouses to finish cattle (fatten them) using much lower quality pasture or no pasture at all.
Eastern farmers can finish cattle on pasture. The best grass fed beef is in the area of the Appalachian mountains.
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