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All animal products that come from factory farms taste different than properly raised animals. Industrial beef smells like corn and tastes bland compared to well cared for beef, but you will pay a premium and it can be hard to find the further you are from the country.
If you haven't had deer, elk, or bison, you need to so you can taste what red meat is suppose to be and you can feel better knowing that the animal lived a great life in the wild before it was murdered.
Fruits and veggies are the same way. Large farms grow plants to look good and keep looking good long enough to travel around the world twice and sit on a store shelf. Small local farmed plants are more likely to actually have flavor, at the expense of not being perfectly round and shiny (and spoiling ten times faster).