I may have missed this in all of the responses, but I wanted to point out that much of the corn fed meat is fed with genetically modified corn.

Yeah I heard if you eat grass fed beef you will grow a bigger penis

and to the PP on page 2 that tried to refute something with a link to The Guardian - really??

Since the "something" PP was refuting was a beef industry press release, I don't think standards are particularly high here.

Anonymous wrote:It's all bs marketing and of course since our area has way too much extra money everyone buys into it. There is no correlation between life expectancy and grass fed beef.

marketing materials from the NIH:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/

Do you also espouse creationism?

Anonymous wrote:It's all bs marketing and of course since our area has way too much extra money everyone buys into it. There is no correlation between life expectancy and grass fed beef.

No one is saying there is a correlation between life expectancy and grass fed beef. Where are you getting that idea?

Grass fed beef cooks so much faster than grain fed beef. Are you turning it into shoe leather without realizing it?

Anonymous wrote:Grass fed beef tastes great and is much lower in fat than that corn fed USDA garbage.

Mmm.. .corn fed beef is delicious. I think it's all personal preference.

and to the PP on page 2 that tried to refute something with a link to The Guardian - really??

Grass fed beef tastes great and is much lower in fat than that corn fed USDA garbage.

It's all bs marketing and of course since our area has way too much extra money everyone buys into it. There is no correlation between life expectancy and grass fed beef.

We get Martin's Angus Beef, which is local, at a farmers market. It's grass-fed, grain-finished. Very tasty. I hear totally grass-fed is better for you, though.

Its what beef is meant to taste like. To me, corn fed beef tastes really fatty and nasty. I would agree that you should buy the highest quality beef that you can afford, to ensure that it tastes good.

Try grass-fed, grain finished. Albright Farms, which is local, has this and comes to many farmers markets.

I am really confused by the many PPs talking about the weird taste of grass fed beef. Seriously, it should *not* taste bad, and if it does, then either a) you hate the taste of meat and just didn't know it because you were eating such bad stuff before or b) the beef is bad. I generally think (b) is more likely. Try local farmers markets. I go about once a month and stock up on lots and leave it in a chest freezer in our basement. So much better than grocery store meat, it's ridiculous.

My experiences at Whole Foods and TJ's are very mixed -- supporting my suggestion (b) above.

Good luck OP!