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<blockquote data-quote="Mid South Guy" data-source="post: 930618" data-attributes="member: 17328"><p>I have often wondered this of the people that, "know the difference." How much of that knowledge is a real difference and how much is a percieved difference caused by physiological factors? I don't know. What I mean is, freezer beef customers usally have a vested interest earlier in the outcome of the finished product. They know, like, and respect the producer, they know the animal and how it was raised, and they know the processor who will customize the product for them. Having this knowledge and time and money invested in the outcome, they, "know" the product is much better than what they can get from the, "factory produced" beef at the grocery store. I know the perception is real. You see ads all the time using the phrases, "locally grown", "farm raised", etc. and people respond to them positively, and there are many people sucessfully raising and marketing there cattle based upon it, but is there a real difference? Like I said, I don't know. I have ate a lot of beef that I have raised, purchased from freezer beef producers, and purchased from grocery stores, and IMO a choice steak is a choice steak reguardless of the source. Taste, tenderness, and quaility is influenced far more by how the meat is prepared and cooked than by how the animal was raised. By all means, if one wants to start, or has a sucessful freezer beef business going, keep it up. Because, we all know, "perception is reality."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mid South Guy, post: 930618, member: 17328"] I have often wondered this of the people that, "know the difference." How much of that knowledge is a real difference and how much is a percieved difference caused by physiological factors? I don't know. What I mean is, freezer beef customers usally have a vested interest earlier in the outcome of the finished product. They know, like, and respect the producer, they know the animal and how it was raised, and they know the processor who will customize the product for them. Having this knowledge and time and money invested in the outcome, they, "know" the product is much better than what they can get from the, "factory produced" beef at the grocery store. I know the perception is real. You see ads all the time using the phrases, "locally grown", "farm raised", etc. and people respond to them positively, and there are many people sucessfully raising and marketing there cattle based upon it, but is there a real difference? Like I said, I don't know. I have ate a lot of beef that I have raised, purchased from freezer beef producers, and purchased from grocery stores, and IMO a choice steak is a choice steak reguardless of the source. Taste, tenderness, and quaility is influenced far more by how the meat is prepared and cooked than by how the animal was raised. By all means, if one wants to start, or has a sucessful freezer beef business going, keep it up. Because, we all know, "perception is reality." [/QUOTE]
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