Man Can Tell a Cow's Age, Gender and Breed From Taste

Laurent Vernet has a taste for beef, such a good taste for it that he can tell gender, maturation, breed, feed, time of year the cow died and whether it was under stress prior to slaughter with one bite of steak. "There's almost no science involved. I've met farmers and butchers who can immediately identify the same things I can, but they do it informally," he says. The real question is, can he tell where a can of Beefaroni was packaged by taste?