Reply #37: I'm referring to *factory farmed* or CAFO animals, thus the term cheap.

[nosmokes]

look,if you're raising your beef in a sustainable /bio-intensive/organic manner, allowing them free range, no hormones, no antibiotics unless sick and then removed from the herd until well and not marketed for 4 mos, only fed vegetarian(preferably organic) forage with an occasional supplement of some silage or something, then obviously you fall into the category of responsible producers that we need to cultivate, support, and pay the premium price for the quality of your beef. i do know enough about cattle operations to know that requires a lot of extra work than the so called conventional methods, and i know from first hand experience, though limited, that work on a ranch is for real work. and i also know that feed-lots and beef producers w/ herds in the thousands where anti-biotics and bone meal are routinely part of the diet and the animals are finished off for a few weeks while standing in a pool of shit and piss and practically being force-fed corn and other grains to fatten em up before slaughter is neither healthy, moral,aesthetically beneficial, sustainable and should not be supported by anyone with a conscience.