Some of you considering grass vs. corn fed beef will find this interesting:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120729/MOMS04/307299853
Also, since producers will continue liquidating herds in the next few months it could be an ideal time to buy low and put it in a freezer.
This is exactly the way my father did it, back in the day. That meat was so good! Roast beef was just wonderful, and the steaks from the grill -
I don’t consider the taste “weedy”, but I am guessing that if people have grown up eating corn-fed, they wouldn’t understand.
It is like eating an heirloom indeterminate sun-ripened tomato right off the vine from your own garden - and comparing their taste to the field grown “bush” tomatoes, the latter bred for machine harvesting and being shipped green to be ripened by gas.
Those who have grown up on supermarket tomatoes would probably find the taste unfamiliar - The same with fresh eggs from one’s own free-range chicken vs factory chickens. You can even see the difference in these.
And, the “eggy” taste is so much better in the free-range chickens, probably because of all the fresh bugs, slugs, and japanese beetle larva they eat. But, those accustomed to supermarket eggs would probably say they taste “buggy” (little joke).
I’m not young. I remember as a kid my mom, grocey stores and even resturaunt menus touting “corn fed beef”.