tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post5241427756536639933..comments2023-11-23T23:29:27.322-08:00Comments on Mom at the Meat Counter: More about beef farmingJanealYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478976372522449553noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post-83227681428481521942012-12-05T14:50:25.486-08:002012-12-05T14:50:25.486-08:00Thanks for the nice comment.
You're right tha...Thanks for the nice comment.<br /><br />You're right that Americans prefer grain-finished beef and it has a milder flavor. It is also more tender.<br /><br />Beef does not contain HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) or MSG (unless they are on the label.) I just wanted my readers to understand that. <br /><br />I had a similar discussion with a friend. When consumers are buying beef to make familiar dishes, like hamburgers or meatloaf, they like the product to be consistent. Consistency is a hard thing to achieve from an animal raised in such a wide range of conditions and fed a wide range of feed stuffs. Grain-feeding helps provide a consistency to beef that American consumers expect. <br /><br />My friend compared beef to wine. Grain-fed beef was like port wine, not as fine as specific vintages, but consistent and still very popular and tasty. She thought grass-fed beef was like fine wine, varied, but wonderful. I'm not a wine drinker, and I'm not fond of grass-fed flavor. <br /><br />I prefer marbled, grain-fed, mesquite-wood grilled ribeyes seasoned with garlic salt and black pepper, cooked to medium-rare.<br /><br />To each their own.<br /><br />I'm glad you are enjoying the blog.<br /><br />Thanks again,<br />Janeal JanealYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478976372522449553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post-16983231570361985402012-12-05T14:31:41.647-08:002012-12-05T14:31:41.647-08:00First I should say thank you for your informative ...First I should say thank you for your informative blog. I just wanted to comment on one thing you said here regarding grass vs. grain finishing.<br /><br />You're right that most Americans "like" grain-finished beef. But that is really (imho) simply because it is what we are used to. It's actually rather sad that our taste-buds have been trained to prefer the food we eat to be bland, and then laced with HFCS and MSG. It's almost like a drug addiction that I have spent part of my adult life trying to unlearn.<br /><br />Chicken nuggets are an excellent example. Or Iceberg lettuce. We buy this bland, nutritionally deficient lettuce, then dump dressing on it to give it flavor. It was only as an adult, when I started trying to eat more nutritously and naturally that I discovered the wide variety of FLAVOR that can actually come from the lettuce itself!<br /><br />I get grass-fed beef from a local farmer whenever we can afford to, and there is a WORLD of difference! Braise a grass-fed chuck roast in a dutch over for a few hours and make some barley soup... There's nothing else like for real, BEEF flavor! Not "brown" flavor, lol. (Like real cherry vs. "red" flavor, lol).<br /><br />Anyway... Thanks for your blog. I'm really enjoying it!Larry Hillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post-43912320412086830502012-10-24T17:24:51.304-07:002012-10-24T17:24:51.304-07:00Hi,
In our area, most ranchers have anywhere fro...Hi, <br /><br />In our area, most ranchers have anywhere from 250 to 6500 head of cattle, average is around 500. We're on the small side and have 250 head of cows. Our salebarn averages 4000 head of spring calves each week from Sept to Nov, and we have a special weigh up cow sale those months. But then again I live in Cherry Co, Ne and we have the most cattle in the USA. My friends work on a ranch that has 4500 head of cows and 95,000 acres of land. <br /><br />It's great that your informing the public on where there beef comes from, most city folk have no clue to where most of there meat comes from or how many owners they have had. <br /><br />krisHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post-34157594975163956432012-10-24T14:41:05.021-07:002012-10-24T14:41:05.021-07:00Thanks for the nice comment! And thanks for sharin...Thanks for the nice comment! And thanks for sharing!<br /><br />Did you notice the picture of me?... that was for you.. ha ha.<br /><br />I'm going to try to figure out how to turn the comment code thing off.<br /><br />:)JanealYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478976372522449553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527375831360205171.post-21171677947766107412012-10-24T14:13:49.695-07:002012-10-24T14:13:49.695-07:00Thank you so much for sharing all of this detail J...Thank you so much for sharing all of this detail Janeal! I learned a lot and I was raised with beef on our family farm. I think what is so important that you highlighted how different beef farms and ranch raise their cattle and how small many farms are! It's not big "industrial" farms like the media talks about. I am sharing many times! One request, can you turn off the code I have to enter after this comment? Blogger will stop your spam comments before they are published and it should be in your settings to turn it off. Otherwise it takes me forever to post a comment because I never get the code right! Thanks!Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11979813260204128944noreply@blogger.com