0_Apprentice
I am so interested in cooking and I've always wanted to cook with Kobe beef and have heard its delicious. 
1_Wizard
Those cattle go back a long ways. They were brought to Japan from China around the 2nd century AD, around the same time as the cultivation of rice.
0_Apprentice
Oh wow. I didn't realize that. Do the cattle eat a special diet? 
1_Wizard
They are grain fed. There was a ban on them being imported for awhile,  and just recently have been allowed to be imported to the US in 2012
0_Apprentice
I see. Why were they banned at all?
1_Wizard
It was to prevent an outbreak of disease. There are 4 breeds -- the Japanese Black, the Japanese brown, the Japanese Polled and the Japanese Shorthorn
0_Apprentice
Is there any one breed that is better than the other? Or are they pretty similar?