[Homestead] Corn Fed Beef
bobf
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 3 10:32:13 EST 2009
That makes sense. Beef should be able to put on enough fat for flavor eating other feed. I don't trust advertsing, of anything, anymore .....
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--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com> wrote:
> > >Corn-fed is still the standard. Corn makes marbled
> fat in steaks (and
> > people's arteries). If there is no marbled fat, a
> steak can't even get a
> > USDA grade (prime, choice, etc.).
>
> Corn-fed is all marketing hype. Big commercial beef
> producers can't produce
> beef anything resembling Lynn's. The only thing they
> can do is bring cows to
> were the corn is piled high and add bulk and weight that
> way. So some years
> ago, with the rise of the feedlot operations, they began a
> campaign of dropping
> the term 'corn fed' with a nod and knowing look as
> if we all knew what that
> meant and agreed it was superior.
>
> It is a very old and proven markenting ploy to take every
> disadvantage of
> your product and hype it into an advantage.
>
>
> James
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