re: Grass fed beef

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This seems circular. What about it is "so much better" for me? That's my whole question.

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IMO the actual benefits depend on where you are buying your beef. If you are getting it from the farm or a distributor you can trust, you have a better idea of how that cow was raised and fed. The problem buying from the store is you have little idea of what went into that cow. Most people assume the premium they are paying for grass fed also limits the antibiotics, hormones, etc. that the cow was given, but really as consumers we have little way of knowing this the further from the farm you purchase.

I eat lots of beef. For a steak, I prefer the average taste of grain finished over grass finished, but each individual cow can be very different. Some of the best steaks I have had were grass finished, but there is a bitterness to many of them that I do not like.