[lbo-talk] vegetarianism: an eating disorder

[Michael McIntyre]

It's possible to find grain-fed beef that was not fattened at the last
minute in feed lots.  My grandfather used to raise them, and when I was a
kid my family would by a whole butchered steer from him every use.
Delicious.  Don't know about Oz, but I've heard the grass-fed beef in
Argentina can be quite tender and tasty.  My experience of it in Brazil was
less good (of course this was 1988 and I was in NE Brazil eating on the
cheap).  Growing up in Kansas City, you eat a lot of steak.  It would take
some convincing to get me to believe that grass-fed beef can compete with a
really fine, grain-fed, aged rib-eye.  Oh damn, now I'm getting hungry....

morbidsymptoms

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>wrote:


> At 11:25 AM -0500 6/4/09, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>  Grass-fattened cattle or other meat animals will of course be
>> considerably less tender -- good-bye sooner or later to tender steaks.
>>
>
> That is not true at all. Trust me, I've never eaten anything but
> grass-fattened cattle. Feed lot cattle are reputed be be very delicious too
> of course, but correctly managed grass fed cattle are quite good too. So
> good that I've never really had much desire to try the more expensive
> feed-lot beef.
>
> Anyhow, I suspect that feed lot beef is probably very high in fat and
> hormone and of course anti-biotic content. the latter because of the
> appalling sanitary conditions in crowded feed-lots.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
>
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