Cattle farming isn’t the factory production problem. Those cattle are grass fed beef. Once the full grown cattle leave the ranch, they go to the feed lot where they are finished out..ie fattened up.
THIS is where the factory production begins. This is where they are kept in crowded pens and fed corn, silage, and other things to fatten them up before they are sent to the kill plants.
I am putting this out there for those who don’t really know the process here in the states.
Most American grown beef is exported over seas where it commands much higher prices than American markets pay. Most of the beef we eat in the usa is grown in Argentina which is in Western South America.
So when you see “heavy western beef” on the package, you need to ask yourself which country?
I have no idea how other countries raise their beef, or what’s permitted in the feed or what’s permitted to ne sprayed on the vegrtation used to make the feed.
I only know that the usa has very strict laws regarding the raising and handling of beef and what can be sprayed as pesticides on potential cattle feed.
Many countries won’t have anything to do with gmo products so I don’t know how that impacts beef they might import from the usa which is finished out on gmo corn and soy.
There ARE places here in the states where you can purchase grass fed beef to butcher as is, or finish out yourself.
What is it with Kobe? Why is it so expensive?