Food

Have you been to Rossiters butchers in Bournville, the rib of beef I bought from them when I lived there was one of the best pieces of meat I've ever purchased.

http://www.organicbutchersbirmingham.co.uk/

Organic meat wont taste any better unless its a placebo effect.

The british standards of raising cattle and sheep is generally very good as standard. Grass fed for most of the year and fed plenty of sileage in winter. They may be supplemented with a little bit of grain which will only improve marbelling (fat = flavour).

Problems come with the american style of farming where cattle are often kept indoors and raised almost purely on high protein grain such as GM soy. Ruminants are not able to process this kind of food very well so it often makes them ill. So they are fed drugs to compensate. But you get a fast growing animal with thick well marbled meat which most people would say tastes much better than grass fed beef.

The meat from the bourville butchers may have also tasted better to do hanging for longer and such.