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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Where's The Beef... Coming From? Posted on 06/19/2002. In their continuing attempts to become a newspaper with reporting worth reading, the SF Chronicle presents a story on the trend in Bay Area restaurants towards offering grass-fed-only beef, and the debates raging in the cattle industry on how to raise cows. A lot of sources are drawn from, including Alice Waters (Chez Panisse master chef), Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation author), Bill Niman (of Niman Ranch beef, which has found itself in the uncomfortable middle, as the beef isn't *solely* grass-fed--it's grain-fed at the end), and others. As the article points out, considering that the Bay Area tends to set culinary trends for the country, whatever shakes out here will likely have quite an impact. 3 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Newton, IA." Next entry: "Visualize Articles Worth Reading" Comments: COMMENT #1 I found this segment on beef rather interesting.. I enjoy eating beef in it's many forms, from burgers to steaks, and in between.. Living in Nebraska with it's many feed lots, I had no idea of the controversy over the difference in how cattle are fed, or the difference in the tastes.. So I asked the butcher (who really doesn't butcher the procucts in the meat section of the store any more) where this beef came from, and how it was fed... With the thousands of animals in our state, I found what I buy comes for South Dakota feed lots.. The extra lean beef probably from mostly grass fed, the fatter from mostly feed lots.. I was amazed to find out what cattle are fed. I told my son, (who had worked for a feed company and took feed to the feed lots and fed the cattle), about the article... He then informed me of all that goes into the feed, the whys, and the way it's introduced ... I had no idea.. There is a difference in the flavor and the texture.. Although the implication is that the feed lot fed beef may not be as healthy for my cunsumption, it is definitely better tasting, and more tender.. I do not eat in the types of restaurants that are mentioned in the article, but I know what I like. I don't go to high priced eateries in the first place, and I wouldn't like to pay a high price for a steak that needs pre-prep to be tender, and taste good... Posted by A.M. @ 06/22/2002 04:09 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 I'm looking for the comment, where did it go? Posted by webber @ 06/23/2002 06:00 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 I'm looking for the comment, where did it go? Posted by webber @ 06/23/2002 06:00 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.