options":1cr3t0bb said:
After reading lots and lots of posts today. One thing seems to always surface in regards to beef. Most posters think store beef is bad and home raised is so so so much better. I'm a wondering if everyone here raises beef so much better than the beef sold in stores, where does the bad beef sold in stores come from?
Where is walmart's feedyard located at?
Where is safeway's feedyard at?
Where is food lion's feedyard located?
Where is publix's feedyard at?
After all bad beef doesn't come from anyone here who raises beef. I have never heard anyone on this board say yup I raise bad beef. Where does it come from?
Well, to answer your question option....
I've herd that an angry animal can effect the flavor of the meat.
I know it's illegal to process a downed cow... but how about those that march off to slaughter with a raging hoof infection? Raging pink eye infection? Would that effect the flavor of the meat?
How about pumping the animal full of antibiotic to clear up that infection... would that effect the flavor of the meat?
How about the fast food chain that keeps braging about their 100% angus beef in their burgers.... is it 100% 25 year old angus bulls? Would they taste the same as a 13 month old calf?
How about a morbidly obese cow? Would the marbeling and fat content of that animal make a "bad" steak?
Would what the animal eats effect the flavor of the meat? (I know that wild onions sure effects the flavor of milk!)
I can think of any number of things that would make a steak "bad". That doesn't mean that we as producers have never ever produced a "bad" steak. But wouldn't logic dictate that we would keep the very best animal to process for our own freezer?
So to answer your questions option....there is going to be a small precentage of beef being culled off the farm that will go to be prcessed. Still fit for human consumption, but not "prime". That's the bad beef. Yup, we all raise cattle that will have to be culled off eventually, (unless they drop dead from old age first) so if you are trying to get us to say "we raise bad beef" then there you go....
Seems like options is trying to pick a fight.