sca-cooks Re: Re(2): Spice Use and Food Poisoning, etc.

[Bill Kecskes]

Stephen Bloch wrote:
> 
> Tibor wrote:
> > I'm sure meat animals are less fatty and more meaty.
> 
> Possible, but it seems to me equally likely that modern meat animals are
> MORE fatty.  Probably tenderer, in either case, since they're raised in
> stalls rather than grazing in fields or woods. 

The tenderness of meat is often affected by the age of the animal and
how it was killed.  A young cow should be better then an old one.  Grain
feed animals are better too.


> And I have NO idea what
> effect all those antibiotics and growth hormones have on the taste, but
> it could be significant.
>                                         Steve / Joshua

Compair how free range eggs taste.


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