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Old 04-27-2019, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills View Post
Believe me I love steak as much as anyone, but I find the term 'humanely-treated meat' a bit of an oxymoron.
Does it mean the animals volunteer to be slaughtered?
Pasture raised (aka "grass fed"), led to slaughter using a system similar to, or the same system as, the one Temple Grandin developed or slaughtered individually not in any kind of mass slaughter factory.

It means they weren't raised in close quarters and force-fed foods that aren't natural for cows, they were allowed to graze for most of their lives, their baby formula was off the mother's udder. More or less cows raised in a traditional way and not in what's called a "factory farm."

Traditional cattle raising produces superior quality meat. If a cow grows up in a stressful (factory) environment, the meat is stringier and tougher. When a cow grows up in a natural environment, its muscles are more relaxed, the meat marbles better, resulting in more tender, juicier, and tasty meat.

The concept of a cow being raised "naturally" is sort of a misnomer. The existence of cows is not a natural phenomenon at all. They exist because humans bred them to exist, from their origins as wild oxen.

Last edited by OrangeBlossomBaby; 04-27-2019 at 02:16 PM.