Why Beef Is Becoming More Like Chicken

[laundry_queen]

4. Seriously

some chicken has become downright inedible. I say that as someone who occasionally buys chickens from local hutterites or menonites and every time I'm AMAZED at how good the non-supermarket chickens taste. It's gotten to the point I refuse to buy frozen chicken breasts, because they taste funny and are almost as fatty as the fresh thighs I usually buy.

I don't buy beef very often. I used to buy an entire cow from a local hobby farmer whose kids showed their cows on the 4-h circut and then you would buy the animal at auction and they'd butcher it for you. (Weird thing is they'd always give you a picture of the cow you bought. So you could see the cow while it was alive.) I don't have the means to do that anymore, so I rarely buy beef, but when I do, I haven't noticed a huge difference in taste from the 4-H cows, and I'm one of those people who is picky picky about taste. I hope farmers refuse to use this drug, much like here in Canada they refused to use the growth hormone in their dairy cows. The corn fed crap is bad enough.