[MarkL]

As far as meat is concerned, it is entirely possible to purchase food from local folks that are looking for a market for well raised beef, pork, lamb and chicken. We have a source for beef raised entirely on grass, fattened on organic corn. The taste is vastly superior to anything you get at the superstore.

I believe that another thing that effects the taste of beef is how the cow is slaughtered.

I was at a shooting match out in Garden City, KS, and the host was a rancher. On the last day of the match he walked up to a cow that was calmly grazing in the field, and shot it in the head. It fell over like a rock, then he cleaned it, and prepared it as a slow cooked BBQ. It was, without a doubt, the best beef I've ever tasted. He explained to me that the stress of the transportation to the slaughterhouse, and the environment of the slaugterhouse paniced the cattle, and it changed the way the meat tastes. I have no reason to disagree.

Mark

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

No argument from me about slaughtering. I see lots of livestock on the way to slaughter. I also know how we dispatched our animals. A world of difference. we kept them calm and happy up until the very end. Resulted in much better eatin'.