RE: Veganism
August 15, 2024 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2024 at 1:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Burger meat, one of the fattiest beef products you'll find, is 27% fat - but this is achieved by holding back the fattiest cuts of alot of cattle - as a cow is 11% fat by weight. At 30% fat by weight you've reached the limit of what the usda will allow you to call "fresh beef sausage". Beyond that, say with particularly low quality processed meat products, the protein is adulterated with GRAS cellulose, not additional fats - as it's cheaper and helps the product hold it's form. Additionally, you can continue to call a thing "beef" so long as you're not adding other meat products.
If we squint in just the right light we might suspect that this notion comes from enhanced marbling patterns in modern herds. It's true that todays cattle have more fat - but this is due as much to the improved conditions for modern livestock as it is the increased efficiency hanging more weight with less feed on fewer acres. The marbling isn't a plot, if producers didn't have to feed it in they wouldn't. It's consumer driven. How we like it. It's very difficult to get good marbling on grass fed beef, but the producers who can pull it off charge a premium for their trouble.
If we squint in just the right light we might suspect that this notion comes from enhanced marbling patterns in modern herds. It's true that todays cattle have more fat - but this is due as much to the improved conditions for modern livestock as it is the increased efficiency hanging more weight with less feed on fewer acres. The marbling isn't a plot, if producers didn't have to feed it in they wouldn't. It's consumer driven. How we like it. It's very difficult to get good marbling on grass fed beef, but the producers who can pull it off charge a premium for their trouble.
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