Be Careful If You Eat Meat

[chucklestheclown]

Ground beef is ok if it is ground at your grocer's or nearby. Preformed patties and, obviously, tube meat, should be avoided at all costs.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by chucklestheclown

Ground beef is ok if it is ground at your grocer's or nearby. Preformed patties and, obviously, tube meat, should be avoided at all costs.

I always avoid tube meat regardless of circumstances

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I always avoid tube meat regardless of circumstances

You ate that mystery meat at the Family Affair...what could possibly be worse than that?

[Indian Charlie]

Instead of buying commercially raised meat, I choose to buy meat from my local farms, where I can see how they are raised, what they are fed, living conditions, etc.

I get my pork from my local dairy, who gives his excess milk to his pigs. Best pork evah, believe me. I buy the whole animal, he takes it to the butcher, and I get back about 100 or so pounds of all the cuts, including the smoked portions like bacon, ham and so on.

All for between $3-$4 a pound!

For beef, I buy very local pasture raised animals and arrange little buying groups of my local friends. We buy the whole animal, or half and go in according to our freezer capacities. When all is said and done, I end up paying about $3.20 a pound, across the board.

That's $3.20 a pound for ground beef, Porterhouse, T-bone, ribeye, you name it!

I also get the soup and marrow bones, with which you can make a lovely beef stock which you can use in all sorts of things.

It's so much better tasting than anything you can get commercially raised, it's far healthier, more humane for the animal and to top it all off, it's less expensive!

My butcher also raises elk, deer and bison.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

My butcher also raises elk, deer and bison.

All of which are better than cow!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

All of which are better than cow!

Better in what ways?

Tasting? Certainly, though if you have never tried this sort of beef, you are missing out!

Those other meats are pretty expensive. I've taken up bow hunting so I can get venison and wild turkey.

[Sightseek]

I love a good steak but those meats are better tasting. Have you tried moose? Really good. Bison is much more healthy than cow, but a lot more expensive!

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Better in what ways?

Tasting? Certainly, though if you have never tried this sort of beef, you are missing out!

Those other meats are pretty expensive. I've taken up bow hunting so I can get venison and wild turkey.

Are you like Grizzly Adams?
Ever tried Black Bear?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

You ate that mystery meat at the Family Affair...what could possibly be worse than that?

That wasnt tube steak. But I still have no idea what it was...