Farmers of reddit, how different does fresh meat taste from grocery store bought meat?

I'm not a farmer, but this is reddit so I'll share some information about grazing animals vs. factory animals.

I work with meat, because I make something called pemmican, which is a shelf stable survival food. Think of it as jerky mixed with fat.

You make it by mixing dried meat with melted fat. Here's the thing. The meat it stores is all factory meat, and factory meat is utter shit.

When you make pemmican you render (melt) the fat. Store bought fat render grey. it has no nutrients in it. The cows have only eaten whatever crap they feed them that isn't grass, and has no nutritional value. It comes out tasting gross and lifeless.

A ranch raised grazing grass fed beef tastes completely different. When you render the fat it comes out a beautiful golden color, from all the vitamins and fat soluble nutrition like vitamins A, D, E, and K in it. Totally different taste and body profile.

If you get a chance to get actual freshly butchered grass fed nutritionally healthy cows, which are almost impossible to find unless you are in the country. Try it. The whole point of eating animals is that they've done the work for us of eating the plants. That and they're delicious.

Store bought factory farmed meat? Poison. Nothing of value there and no natural flavor. Its bland and designed to be spiced. Basically a lump of protein with some fat on it.

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