>For me it was the whole 'industrial farm' thing. I don't like the idea of all the antibiotics and hormones used in that process. Here in MT it is pretty easy to get locally raised, grass fed, organic beef.

Though whole industrial farming thing just sickens me. Take the weak and sick ones, then grind them up and feed them to the healthly ones. It defies logic. Also dosing cattle with anti-biotics even when they aren't sick just in case they get sick. Its all about throughput and not the health of the consumer.

>Even so, it is only about once a year that I indulge in beef. I should have qualified 'meat' to indicate 'red meat'. We do eat fish, usually wild salmon.

You must pay dearly for wild salmon in those parts. We only eat wild salmon too.