The A&W ads make me laugh so much. "Grass fed beef". Yeah, every fucking beef steer in Canada eats grass for most of his life. The question is when and how he's fed grain/how long he's on a feedlot for.
I had a rancher for a neighbour years and years ago who used to come over for dinner; one time he brought over some of his own beef, a yearling who'd eaten nothing but grass, so we could sample what the difference was.
If those A&W burgers had been from cattle that ate nothing but grass, their customers would complain that it doesn't taste like beef at all (it tasted very "wild".)
The best stuff to get, frankly, is when the cattle are pasture-raised, but supplemented with grain all the way along, and maybe finished on it (but not in a feedlot.) It costs, though.
The A&W ads make me laugh so much. "Grass fed beef". Yeah, every fucking beef steer in Canada eats grass for most of his life. The question is when and how he's fed grain/how long he's on a feedlot for.
I had a rancher for a neighbour years and years ago who used to come over for dinner; one time he brought over some of his own beef, a yearling who'd eaten nothing but grass, so we could sample what the difference was.
If those A&W burgers had been from cattle that ate nothing but grass, their customers would complain that it doesn't taste like beef at all (it tasted very "wild".)
The best stuff to get, frankly, is when the cattle are pasture-raised, but supplemented with grain all the way along, and maybe finished on it (but not in a feedlot.) It costs, though.