yes. If you’ve eaten scrub or grass-fed only beef, you can tell the difference between grain-finished beef. Grain adds marbling. Fat. Juiciness and tenderness. Corn especially adds flavor. The best Angus beef in the world comes from America.
The below article explains why the ‘beef has hormones’ thing is just another urban myth meant to scare children and housewives into purchasing higher-priced boutique-farm beef.
“... a key point is that cattle are implanted long before they go to slaughter. By then, the implant hormone is used up. That’s partly why feed efficiency and growth rate trail off later in the feeding period — the implants and their growth-promoting effects are depleted.
“It’s also why there’s almost no measurable difference in hormone levels in beef from implanted and unimplanted cattle. There is more variation in hormone levels between male and female cattle than between treated and untreated animals.
“BCRC’s document, “Optimizing Feed Efficiency in Feedlots,” explains how and why beef producers may provide ionophores and beta agonists as feed supplements to improve feed efficiency and weight gain. Neither contain steroid hormones, nor do they mimic or supplement hormones, Bergen clarifies.
https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/features/straight-talk-on-hormones-in-beef/
yes. If you’ve eaten scrub or grass-fed only beef, you can tell the difference between grain-finished beef. Grain adds marbling. Fat. Juiciness and tenderness. Corn especially adds flavor. The best Angus beef in the world comes from America.
^ This. Pure grass fed beef usually sucks. Beef needs to be finished on grain. Many in these parts have tried to raise “grass fed organic beef” only to find no market once people taste it. I’ve watch these producers go out of business one after another. There’s no local grain supply here so grain finishing is too expensive.