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A Blind Tasting: Corn-Fed vs. Grass-Fed Beef

If you've read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore Dilemma , you likely have an opinion about corn-fed versus grass-fed beef. I certainly do. I read the book years ago and no other has affected my food purchases more; it was even assigned reading in my 5th grader's class this year. It's no surprise that food choices, environmental impact, and nutritional concerns are hot topics of conversation around my dinner table. In any case, Pollan's book caused me to re-think my beef purchases and I have, as much as possible, switched completely over to organic and 100% grass-fed. There are distinctions between grass-finished and grass-fed, but that is for another blogpost. A good friend of mine raises cattle in Ohio. Corn-fed. He and I have talked about what is most important, for me, as an informed consumer, in purchasing beef. Will I buy organic before grass-fed? He was weighing the benefits of switching to organic corn ; apparently, there is virtually no market for ...

Grass-Fed (NOT Grass-Finished) Burgers

This past weekend I took the boys up to Half Moon Bay for a preview of the new venture that Kevin Koebel - of Local FATT fame - is opening this month. Click here to read my piece on Ground Up Burgers for Edible Monterey Bay ; it went live on their blog this week. We tasted no less than 5 different kinds of burgers - burgers with kimchee, burgers with dandelion greens, burgers with candied Meyer lemon, burgers with house-cured bacon. SO delicious! On the way up there, we talked about the difference between grass-fed, grass-finished, and corn-fed cattle. I explained that corn is not a healthy diet for cows' intestines. I didn't realize that Dylan was paying attention as well as he did. And while we were there, he ate but spent most of the time coloring their logo in the kids' section. But somehow, he absorbed the information. Here is food awareness in action...I had a meeting at the school last night. So, Jake took them to grab burgers at a local joint after Riley'...