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I thought the ranchers here might want to take a look at at these
articles by the authors of "Eat this, not that."

Here is the link:

http://eatthis.menshealth.com/content/10-meaty-secrets-revealed?cm_mmc=ETNTNL-_-2010_05_19-_-HTML-_-1

Here is one of the articles presented:
The Claim: All Natural - Minimally Processed. Contains No Artificial Ingredients.
The Truth: You'll see the word "natural" all over meat packaging, both beef and poultry. The meat industry became very fond of the term "natural" with the rising popularity of organic food. Producers of nonorganic foods worried that consumers would assume that conventional meat would translate into "chemical ridden," which spurred almost all meat manufacturers to emblazon their products with the phrase "all natural." It's easy enough, since the USDA doesn't carefully regulate the term-making it all but meaningless to the consumer.
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You know, we have had many discussions here about cattle, marketing,
breeds, etc and we all have our favorites. When we were in SD
last week, I noticed one of the supermarkets there was running an
ad on Rib Steaks. The price was $6.99, BUT right below it was
Angus Rib Steaks $7.99. I'd never seen this before. I thought it
was interesting. $1.00/lb more for Angus beef and it didn't say CAB...
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