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Could an average person tell a difference?

Could an average person tell a difference?

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[–] • 7 pts

I think that any person who pays attention could tell the difference. I buy local farm raised beef and can definitely tell the difference between that and the supermarket beef. But I am not sure any of my kids have enough of a refined taste to care...

I think that there are millions of modern day people who cram shit in their faces all day. If your idea of 'beef' is 'the stuff in the bottom of the taco' or 'the grey stuff in the center of a Big Mac' then I think you would have a hard time telling the difference.

[–] • 1 pt

A professional beef taste tester (they exist) can accurately tell :

  • male or female
  • age 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years
  • type of kill method (adrenaline changes flavor dramatically in carcass)

Its been written about a few times in news articles.

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I contend that 'Grass fed vs Grain fed' is easy to discern as well as 'Farm raised vs Pen raised'

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That means jews and sand jews like the taste of meat that's tortured before death. Kosher and halal slaughter are pretty rough ways to go.

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Even just rural cows raised in not such horrid conditions results in a better tasting cow. We purchase a half beef with my parents every year and holy fuck it makes the store-bought shit seem like fucking slop. I think some of that comes down with the butcher too and of course how much fat you put into your ground beef and another big factor is obviously the breed.

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The more fat the healthier. Feed lot cow fat is not as healthy since it's full of omega-6 from the corn.

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Chickens raised a backyard eat a huge amount of grass, weeds and bugs and I fed mine waste grains from a bakery. The more rich taste and vibrant colored yolks is striking.

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Try it. Go buy cheap meat from the grocery store. And then find a local producer, verify the feed-source and husbandry practices, and buy directly from him.

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Pretty hard to actually verify. You'd have to watch that cow every day for a few years, follow it to the slaughterhouse, makes sure that's the meat packed into your packages.

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Helps if you choose to get to know the producer.

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When I lived on the alien space craft during my 5 year abduction, the beef was out of this world (pun not intended) they would run the beef through a centrifuge type of machine and made the choicest laser cuts. The laser would sear it just right in thin slices. So fresh n tasty.

I miss Blorlok and his concubine Jes. Good times minus the initial probing.

Now it's just walmart beef on the grill. Monterey spice n butter is nice.

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You should expand this retelling of an alien abduction I want to hear the entire story

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Ahh it comes back in flashes. The conversation about all kinds of dead cows triggered that memory.

They kinda like to trip humans out. They dont eat us. I have no idea how long I was unconsciousness but when I came around I was scared. When they filleted the whole cow in a minute I was freaked out. Thought I was next. They knew I would like the meat. Jes pinched a piece and handed it to me. I did indeed like it, I needed food. They always had a dolphin on the vessel as well. It seemed like they could totally communicate with the dolphins. They paid more attention to the dolphin than me, but they kept me for about 5 years.

They would only have 1 dolphin at a time and only for a month or two... octopus too, they liked octopi.

The vessel was more like a home than a ship. I guess it was kind of like an rv er somthin. They were like nomads of sorts, constantly on the move. I kept thinking of those hollyweird stories of aliens that had their home planet destroyed, but I dont think that was the case. They didnt seem desperate or anything.

Seemed like I was more of a pet than a science project or a prisoner. They liked me, I think. We went all over space to different planets and "mother ships".

After we docked one time they took me off their vessel, onto the mothership. It was like a large mall er somthin. Huge white vaulted ceilings. Lots of them had human pets. I saw one with; I swear it was an albino sasquatch. The sasquatch was much bigger than them. It had a black and silver body collar around the neck and ran down the spine and waist n legs. That one Sasquatch I saw was huge, very intimidating looking. But I only saw it for about a few moments in passing.

We drank this orange drink all the time. Kinda tangy n sweet but slimy. I liked it and if you left it in a cup it would bubble and ferment. You can get drunk on it.

The cups were weird. They were like stainless steel but would break if you threw them hard enough; which I did once. Blorlok threw me in my pod after I did that. I kinda deserved it, but I was pissed n a little drunk.

Cant think of much else. Cant prove any of it either. Kind of like the holocaust lol.

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Sigh… from space ships to Walmart. Your life seems moving in the wrong direction.

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I'm moving forward and that's a good direction for me. It's all a matter of perspective. This is a fine planet. This timeline is a little wacky though.

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Anything particular about the planet you’d care to experience?

How about a world wide economic collapse?

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You could tell by the incidence of cardiovascular diseases among the people who are eating one or the other. Cows fed corn have a lot more omega-6 fatty acids in their fat, which is harmful to humans.

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I get a quarter cow every year to stock my freezer. When it runs out i don’t always time the next order right or sometimes there are delays so I buy organic supermarket ground beef. It is OBVIOUSLY different and I dislike the taste. More watery, less flavorful. Up until this latest buy, I always got grass fed grass finished and wanted to try grass fed grain finished. The grain finished is more tender I think, but it does sacrifice some flavor, IMO. I plan to go back to grass fed grass finished next time.

Note that even at the supermarket when something says “grass fed” that can mean the cow was fed dry hay in a feedlot and it also can mean that it was “grain finished.” You notice the labels never say “grass fed grass finished” because those are two different parts of the cow’s life and I’m gonna guess all industrial cows are grain finished if “big business organic.”

Your best bet is to find a farmer and buy local. I have a great relationship with a semi-local farm and we just budget for the slightly higher cost for quality. $650-700 for over a half full chest freezer that lasts us about 9mo to a year. We do supplement with chicken and other supermarket meats that are lower quality but “organic/natural.”

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It would all depend on the way the meat was prepared and then cooked. If you are doing nothing to the meat and putting the slabs of meat on a grill and cooking equally side by side, absolutely.

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It depends... Are the organic cows raised on a farm?

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I think they mean the difference between feedlot shit-tier beef and pasture raised beef that eats grass.

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They first thing that newly rich people prioritise is food

so it's not a matter if you can taste the difference, it's having enough disposable income that nothing else is more important

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I agree. Everyone on the internet talks like they can afford anything

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