I love beef and I LOVE Kobe Beef!
Why is Kobe beef so special?
It comes from Wagyu cattle which yield a beef with a higher percent of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.  They are also hand massaged
Do Kobe beef farmers give their cows vitamins?
I don't know about vitamins, but, I do know there are four strains of cattle that are wagyu breeds.
Is Wagyu a place in Japan?
No wagyu is the name of the beef type; it comes from several different areas in Japan.
How about Kobe.  Is it a town name in Japan?  It sounds familiar.
Kobe
The earliest written records regarding the region come from the "Nihon Shoki", which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201. For most of its history, the area was never a single political entity, even during the Tokugawa period, when the port was controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate. Kobe did not exist in its current form until its founding in 1889. Its name comes from . Kobe became one of Japan's designated cities in 1956.
Kobe was one of the
Japanese beef and would prefer a more familiar flavor profile. Some US meat producers claim any differences between their less expensive "Kobe-style" beef and true Kobe beef are largely cosmetic. Cuts of US "Kobe-style" beef tend to have darker meat and a bolder flavor.
In Europe, UK grocery retailer Asda, owned by Walmart, introduced Wagyu beef at the end of 2011 under its Butcher’s Selection line using meat from a herd in Yorkshire, "bred from Holstein dairy cows impregnated with Wagyu semen