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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1613497" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Wow - this statement is a bit of a slam on grass-fed beef:</p><p>"slaughtered its first ten-year-old cow. It had been fed on grain for a full 300 days prior. "They eat thirty pounds [of feed] a day, and they don't gain much weight," Beeman said. "Their conversion rates are horrible." He was referring to the cow's ability to efficiently convert grain into body mass, but that's not the only reason for the grain diet. It's also to add fat back into the animal and temper the gaminess that can come with nine years of eating primarily grass.</p><p></p><p>These old cows were being treated like catfish that are purged in fresh water to eliminate the flavor of what they've been eating their whole life. The Beemans know their audience, and Americans are used to a beef flavor that isn't fully developed."</p><p></p><p>Also not an endorsement of their do-ability/easy keeper "conversion rates are horrible" - coming from a breeder of 3000 fullbloods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1613497, member: 968"] Wow - this statement is a bit of a slam on grass-fed beef: "slaughtered its first ten-year-old cow. It had been fed on grain for a full 300 days prior. “They eat thirty pounds [of feed] a day, and they don’t gain much weight,” Beeman said. “Their conversion rates are horrible.” He was referring to the cow’s ability to efficiently convert grain into body mass, but that’s not the only reason for the grain diet. It’s also to add fat back into the animal and temper the gaminess that can come with nine years of eating primarily grass. These old cows were being treated like catfish that are purged in fresh water to eliminate the flavor of what they’ve been eating their whole life. The Beemans know their audience, and Americans are used to a beef flavor that isn’t fully developed." Also not an endorsement of their do-ability/easy keeper "conversion rates are horrible" - coming from a breeder of 3000 fullbloods. [/QUOTE]
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