interesting meat.

[smilingcat]

We don't eat much meat. What we do consume tends to be turkey cause its cheap, chicken well its chicken. And occasional salmon. Hay, we live in PNW now and its a regional thing. We do the local things ya know.

We don't eat beef. Instead, we normally have buffalo meat when its available. Avoid, drugged bovine, corn fed bovine... We went to buy some buffalo meat but the purveyor at the open air market (local farmers) didn't carry. Instead, they carried yak meat.

Have you every tried yak? not sure what it looked like either. So we googled. They are listed as vulnerable in conservation status. OMG!! well the vulnerable status is for wild yak not for domesticated yak.

It was good eats. very lean. very tender... better than hormone, anti-biotic, chemical beef.

Cute animals... I think we'll stick with buffalo, turkey, chicken and fish.

[Owlie]

Yak?! That's a new one. There's a massive...I hesitate to call it a grocery store, because that doesn't do it justice...food-based tourist attraction near my hometown that has everything from beef and chicken to kangaroo and camel. I don't think I've ever seen yak, though.

(And I don't think I could eat a kangaroo.)

[grey]

I won't eat any of it, being vegetarian and all. :-D
all joking aside, yak is a new one on me!

[rubysoho]

edited because I wasn't reading for comprehension...

Yak is new to me! How cool that you have producers nearby with such a variety. I buy beef from a local farer who has an open door policy to his farm. The family he uses to process the meat would also let me watch start to finish if I wanted.

[OakLeaf]

Interesting! I've never heard of that either.

Only, I wouldn't count on any meat being pasture raised and hormone and antibiotic free just on account of its species. The Alberta industry association recommends feedlot finishing of bison, and there was a recall of CAFO bison just last year. (And there's nothing that I know of that's environmentally or nutritionally wrong with occasional consumption of local, pasture-finished, hormone-free beef.) Know yer grower ...

[MomOnBike]

I've had it. A family friend raises the critters. The time we had it, it was pretty good. Richer, to my taste, than beef. I don't think I'll go out of my way to buy it, but if our friend brings more over for us, I'll help with the eating.