There's a good article in Fortune about this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolm...kobe-beef-lie/
The basic point is that Kobe beef means it's from Kobe, Japan (and of a certain grade) and beef can not be imported from Japan to the US. So unless you are getting it on the black market, there is no such thing as American Kobe (as the article points out, lobster is good in the UAE, but they shouldn't call it UAE "Maine" Lobster). The article also points out that what's sold as American wagyu/Kobe may be great beef and well worth the money, just calling it American wagyu/Kobe is misleading, and in the end kind of dumb. Our ranchers/distributors should be building the brand of high-end US beef rather than trying to ride on the fame of a completely different product.
However you feel about it, it's an interesting issue.
