"Nancree" > wrote in message
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> To Michael Odom et al:
> About grass-fed beef you said:
>
> "D and I had friends over for dinner last night. I grilled T-bone
> steaks. We got a quarter of a grass-fed steer last week from our egg
> lady. It's wonderful. Everybody should get some grass-fed beef."
>
> I'm not making any pronouncements here, but I had always heard, from
experts,
> that Grain-fed is much better than Grass-fed beef. The experts I
refer to are
> major ranchers in Imperial County, California. We visited them, and
their ranch
> is huge, don't know how many square miles, but we drove many miles to
get
> there. It is big enough to have it's own grass landing-strip and
hangar for
> their plane. They serve whole beef roasts the way you and I would
serve
> hamburgers. They refuse to eat grass-fed beef because of the flavor.
This is
> their business. They have hundreds and hundreds of cattle.
> They are "real" ranchers, to put it mildly. I would like to hear
from you on
> this , Michael. When you say "grass-fed" , what is the alternative to
that?
> Again, I'm not being argumentative, just really want to know.
> Nancree
>
I grew up eating grass fed beef. My uncle had a farm in Wisconsin. Had
dairy cows. The land was too poor and too far north to grow corn.
Buying corn cost too much. They had free range hogs and chickens too.
The hogs had about a 2 acre pen.

Grocery store meat or even Moose was better than the grass fed beef.
The free range pork was tough.

There is a reason that the growers feed all that corn to the cows.

del cecchi
>