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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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