Does Kobe beef have religious significance in Japan?
Japanese soldiers, involved in many armed conflicts over the years, were fed beef to strengthen them for battle. When the soldiers came home from war, they brought, their appetite for beef with them. Village elders believed that consuming beef inside the house was a sacrilege, a desecration of the house, and an insult to their ancestors. Young men were forced to cook their beef outside on plow shears (this process become known as sukiyaki, which literally means plow cooking) until the Meiji Restoration finally relaxed restriction against eating beef. R.L. Freeborn is a fourth generation beef producer from Bend, Oregon and the visionary behind KBA, Inc. He’s long been involved in both the seed stock industry as well as the exporting of high quality beef to the Japanese market. Through the years, Freeborn has developed working relationships with Japanese breeders and feeders. Those relationships have allowed him to learn the technical requirements in addition to acquiring the superior ge
