Organic meat in Fairbanks? (to buy, restaurant, grocery)

[JohnPF]

There you go!

[tigre79]

Originally Posted by warptman

Medium well, please...

It's already dead, you don't need to cook it to death.

[JohnPF]

Hey! The meat might be dead- but what about the viral crap that hides in there?
Like the brain sponge crap or aids for people- came from monkeys...

[tigre79]

We're all going to die of pig flu soon enough, don't worry about all that other stuff.

No, seriously though, eating medium-rare steaks is pretty low on the risk scale as far as I'm concerned.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by JohnPF

Yes, untill you think about it.
The chemical composition of grass fed vs commercial feed fed cattle meat is totally different. Cholesterol comes to mind too.
Corn fed awesome chicken?
Everything is corn fed and it shows in your body, hair...
Confirming Pollan, PNAS study shows that fast-food chains mainly peddle corn | Grist
The difference is Omega-3 fatty acids that grass fed animal meat is full of and corn fed animal meat is lacking. Acids that play big role in how your joints hold up with age, your prostate, hearth condition.
I know it and I try to think about it when buying food, but I know, not always.
But morning stiffness, finger joint stiffness that's the reminder that eating right is important.
Good beef steak is not so good when it is corn fed beef. Or that famous golden colored chicken in the market cases. The yellow color is not even a proof it was corn fed. Not that it is good for you...

Are you aware that cattle are corn fed just for a few weeks prior to butchering. This is done to improve meat flavor; that's all. What I don't like is the "out of a bag feed" fed to the cattle at most cattle ranches throughout the US. But free-range cattle like the one I mentioned before is the best I can think of. No hormones, and other stuff injected of fed to them, just grasses and then four weeks of grasses and corn before butchering.

[melbern]

I think grass-fed (only) beef tastes a bit bland...though I get the health benefits.

[JohnPF]

After I got to visit Wyoming, and wonder through the Medicine Bow rural areas- see the free range cattle there, I did think about buying a half or so. But no one I know wanted to go in on that so it never happened. Too bad, I think in retrospect. But reading the free range Wyoming beef websites, I don't remember anything about feeding them corn to improve the flavor.
You know, couple of weeks of diet like that, will purge the animal of much of the beneficial fatty acids that came from the life long grass feeding. I think...
Same for humans, we are what we eat!
I forgot how often your body's matter is replaced with new cells. Kinda fast I think.

[tigre79]

Originally Posted by JohnPF

But reading the free range Wyoming beef websites, I don't remember anything about feeding them corn to improve the flavor.

They aren't all grain finished (and it's as much to add weight before slaughter as it is anything to do with flavor). Grass-finished beef is a bit of a specialty market in the US though, along with organic beef. I prefer grass-finished beef because it's better for you and because that means your cow was never in a feedlot. Some people don't like how it tastes, but I've never found a reason to complain.

[Jerseykat]

Big fan of limousin beef, lean and tasty.

[melbern]

limousin?