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To: IamConservative
Exactly. It has to do with the quality of the finished beef, the age, the lack of ‘hump’, and how it was raised and fed.

It would have made more sense to just add another ‘grade’ to beef, rather than using a breed name. Call it extra-prime or something like that.

In my opinion a Holstein/Hereford cross is about the best beef you can get if it is raised right.

92 posted on 12/02/2010 6:29:12 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U
In my opinion a Holstein/Hereford cross is about the best beef you can get if it is raised right.

We always had Polled Herefords and some Charolais mix for size. The beef we raised for our own consumption was raised in confinement with a controlled diet, which produced a good marbled prime beef. The market doesn't pay enough premium to justify this effort and expense in large volumes.

There is a big difference between proper marbling and fat. What went to market was fat, what went to the freezer was marbled. :)

93 posted on 12/02/2010 6:37:17 AM PST by IamConservative (Our collective common sense; the only thing a 1.5GPF toilet ever flushed on the first pull.)
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