Try and find a piece of meat with the "Certified Angus Beef" (CAB) sticker on it that also has the acceptable USDA grade on it. Very difficult, if at all.
My local market managers when asked about the USDA grade on thier CAB meat say: "Oh, it's choice or select."
So how are we supposed to know which? I don't knowingly buy "select".
This is a scam...ripoff...and consumer fraud!
Complain to your meat seller and tell your congressman to force the USDA to stop this fraud!
Why is it the government’s job to tell you how good your meat is?
If the government wasn’t involved, you could encourage meat sellers to find a good 3rd-party company to inspect meat and grade it, and if they didn’t do it right you could vote with your wallet until they did.
But now you are screwed, and your only recourse is to whine to congress and hope that your representative can talk a bunch of other representatives into voting to make things better for you — all the while the guys with the big bucks are paying them campaign contributions to make things better for THEM.
Get the government out of the meat-grading business. The Jews have no problem figuring out who sells Kosher products.
Complain to your meat seller and tell your congressman to force the USDA to stop this fraud!
Don't go whining to the government to solve every tiny problem. It isn't the government's job to hold your little hand and walk you through your grocery purchase. It isn't the government's job to educate you about what the various grades of meat look like.
You may wish to try the following:
1. Buy your meat from a reputable source, preferably from a butcher who processes his own carcasses. If your market manager says "It's choice or select", don't shop there. It really is that simple. You may have to travel a bit to find a real butcher, but since you are complaining, it's clearly something that bothers you.
"Butchers" in many grocery stores don't know much about meat. The meat comes to the store prepackaged & it's the "butcher's" job to set it out in the case.
Try and find a piece of meat with the "Certified Angus Beef" (CAB) sticker on it that also has the acceptable USDA grade on it. Very difficult, if at all.
2. Refuse to buy unmarked meat.
So how are we supposed to know which? I don't knowingly buy "select"
4. Educate yourself about what the various cuts should look like. It isn't difficult and it isn't the government's job.
5. Utilize market forces to make the changes you'd like to see made. In other words, don't shop in stores which don't do the right thing and ask others to do the same.
***Try and find a piece of meat with the “Certified Angus Beef” (CAB) sticker on it that also has the acceptable USDA grade on it***
As we say in Cattle country...”Once you get the hide off, they are ALL Angus”!