"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:06:19 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> "Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
>> mmunications...
>>> There is a store advertising locally, selling "Montana grass-fed beef
>>> steaks." They are touted as being very lean, which I can imagine as
>>> being
>>> grass-fed, but are also advertised as "USDA Prime." I thought Prime
>>> required substantial marbling of fat. Is it possible for beef to be
>>> Prime
>>> and also very lean?
>>
>> What with the drought ranchers have sent their herds to slaughter at a
>> much
>> younger age. This may be why they are graded prime.
>
> Young steers under the age of 28 months will hardly ever grade prime
> when given the extra 4 months they WOULD grade prime.
>
>> Prime includes both age and fat content.
>
> Maturity, not age.

We're talking cows here. Not you.

>> It's pretty hard to find prime beef in stores since
>> restaurants tend to take all of it.
>
> This has been proven false hundreds of times here. Stop repeating
> that shit you read in those 1970 Reader's Digests.

Proven false? Hundreds of times? How about discussed, maybe once, 12 years
ago?