Baxter Black: GRASS VS. GRAIN FED BEEF
I was at the Governor’s Ag Conference in Dover, Delaware recently. My column runs in the Delmarva Farmer. Bruce, the publisher asked me…well, here’s how he put it:
“A debate is raging here about which tastes better, grass or grain fed beef. What do you think?”
As I recall, they served chicken at the noon luncheon, so I didn’t get a chance to surreptitiously overhear his comments about beef. To parse the question, he did not say grass fat or grain fat beef. Had that been the case I could have passed along the observations of meat guru Dr. Gary Smith at CSU, who said, “People crave 3 things; salt, chocolate and fat.”
I’m not sure how he determined that. Did he lock three diabetics with congestive heart failure in a room? Keep them off feed for 24 hours then lay out platters of salt and pepper, chocolate and vanilla, and fat and tofu to see which disappeared first?
