Russ, Suck it up buttercup, We have the USDA here that has routinely recalled beef for consumer safety unlike that road kill you get in the fly infested carnecerias SOB. This question is like saying you’re in Rocky Point and you’ll be going to Phoenix and you want to find the best place to buy sea food. The carneceria I frequent that also has the best prepared ranchera is located on the south west corner of Baseline and Central.They prepare it when you order it so you know it’s fresh and not use the mix to mask the beef. Processed steak? We’re not talking hot dogs or Mcnuggets here
Believe what you will!
A snippet of the above referenced article reads "
What you need to know:
How do high levels of copper, arsenic, and penicillin get into beef in the first place? This is the unfortunate result of modern day, factory farm growing methods. Cows for years have been raised not on a pasture but rather in close confinement, eating surplus corn instead of grass, thus developing digestive problems that are treated with copious amounts of antibiotics. Add hormones for quick growth, heavy metals in drinking water from nearby factories, pesticide residues from neighboring farms, and you’ve got a symphony of chemicals waiting to be unleashed into the human body with each bite of that T-bone steak.
By the way, Mexico is not the only country finding US beef objectionable. Japan, for the last 7 years has been severely restricting the import of American beef. The reason – fear of mad cow disease as a result of sub-par US feeding methods.
Why wouldn’t the US government put the safety of its citizens as top priority? As usual, you need to follow the money. The way beef is raised today, it can be sold rather cheaply. Consumers are happy to pay less, even if there is a certain risk to their health as a result.
The lobbies representing huge cattle factories make sure that Congress does not impose too many restrictions and inspections which would obviously result in increased “manufacturing” costs. A spokesperson for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said “Beef farmers and ranchers pride themselves on producing a safe and wholesome product, and anything less is unacceptable.” Right."
This is where I got my years worth of meat.. bought as a calf and let it walk around the back yard and eat for 6 months then put it in a nice 20x20 pen and fed it only oats with molases some fine alfalfa, and a big 40oz bottle of hard apple cider every day. for 2 months then off to White Tanks Processing to hang for 6 more weeks. and that is how I get my meat in the states BTW the name on the state inspection papers was "Porterhouse" 
