What's the Beef?

[BobC357]

Our neighbor lady is one that will only eat meat if it comes in a plastic wrapped styrofoam box. She cringes when she sees our waxed paper wrapped meat in white paper. I tried to explain it to her but, she doesn't want to hear it.

It's spring time and soon, we'll go buy our calf for next year's beef. We go to a rancher friend I've known for 40 years. We buy it and he lets it graze. Then, in the fall, we slaughter, clean & dress, age, butcher and wrap it for the quick-freeze freezer. I also hunt deer and elk and we treat our beef just like our game meats.

I explained to her that I know where my meat came from, how it was raised, what it ate and that it was hormone free. She doesn't know anything about her meat - even what country its from. We know who touched it, how sterile the equipment is and how it was prepared for freezing. She hasn't got a clue. Hers is wrapped in toxic plastic and styrofoam and ours is in acid free paper and wax paper. Hers is injected with carbon monoxide to look pretty, ours is not. Her ground beef is probably 20% fat and ours is less than 10%. Finally, she's paying over $3 per pound and we're paying less than $2. Ours certainly tastes better than store-bought. It is interesting how marketing drives opinions.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Do you name it? Does he send you pictures as it grows up? Do you go out and visit him and teach him tricks
Sounds like a good way to buy beef if you ask me.

 

[Arik]

It's not just marketing it's "look" as well. You know that most store bought canola oil and olive oil has Bleach added! The reason is that natural olive oil is a little cloudy and companies are afraid that people will think cloudy = bad and won't buy so they add bleach to make it transparent and thus "fresh"

My family comes from the old country. My mom doesn't understand why people buy ground meat when you can buy fresh and ground it yourself. Or anything pre cut, pre made or pre marinaded. Don't even get her started on ready to eat items and dishwashers. She uses those for storage

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[blujax01]

True Story:

A local radio talk show had an open discussion concerning deer hunting and hunting in general. As you might imagine, it brought out a lot of opinions, on both sides.

The kicker was the woman who called in and insisted that we all should get our meat in restaurants and grocery stores "where no animals are harmed in the process."

The host was flabbergasted.

''Um, ...(snicker), uh... And we'll be right back after these messages (snicker)..."

 

[bricker]

Do you name it? Does he send you pictures as it grows up? Do you go out and visit him and teach him tricks
Sounds like a good way to buy beef if you ask me.

It's name is "Norman"

 

[recurve]

We have been buying a 1/4 of a cow from a good friend of ours for years. My brother-law raises hogs, so we get a half of one of those of him. I also took 2 deer last year. So we are set for meat. So yes I know where mine comes from too. Good to know.

 

[Arik]

It's name is "Norman"

All of them?

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[rimfired]

I worked for a National food distributor for ten years. We had our own Divison meat cutting plant. Custom cut box beef up to and including Prime.

Had a conversation with a nice lady regarding the process. She asked why we had to kill all those steers when we could just go to the grocery store where no animals had been harmed.......

 

[moe smith]

We have been buying a 1/4 of a cow from a good friend of ours for years.

I will only do that if I can find it for 75% off.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

It's name is "Norman"

Norman's good......

 

[Alk8944]

Norman's good......

I was expecting Irving!

 

[Alpo]

I was expecting Irving!

I believe "Norman" was the name of Billy Crystal's calf, on City Slickers.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

The father of modern conservation Aldo Leopold stated (not word for word) that it will a dangerous time when people believe their food comes from a grocery store.

And it is since people like this base their opinions on emotion and ignore facts. But in statements listed above some people lack common sense, and they vote too!

 

[dougb1946]

Lesson one in farming-don't name the food.

 

[vytoland]

if everyday folks knew how the stuff they eat, pork, beef, poultry, fruits, vegetables are "processed"....they would turn a whiter shade of pale.....

 

[BigBill]

I could never raise animals for food. I get attached to animals way to easy.
I'm kind of a whisperer. Sorry for drifting.

I eat every meat from the store just nothing I raised.

The Chinese food makes me wonder I never seen chicken that tender? I told my kids that once now they all eat crab ragoons and shrimp.
I swear the tender chicken goes meow when I bite into it. It purrs too.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I could never raise animals for food. I get attached to animals way to easy.

Would you consider plants?

 

[Brian41]

We get our beef and pork from a local farmer that raises his own grain and doesn't use drugs on them. Just picked up half a pig the other night and put our order in for beef.
It's so much better than store bought and saves some coin too. I highly recommend the practice.

 

[Damn Yankee]

I remember years ago making a delivery to a slaughter house. I walked in to the kill floor and will never forget that site. Dead cows hanging from a conveyor one dead cow on the floor with the heart laying there still beating. A guy in rubber boots with a squeegee pushing the blood towards a sewer. I could never work in a place like that.

I still eat meat though.

 

[shouldazagged]

True Story:

A local radio talk show had an open discussion concerning deer hunting and hunting in general. As you might imagine, it brought out a lot of opinions, on both sides.

The kicker was the woman who called in and insisted that we all should get our meat in restaurants and grocery stores "where no animals are harmed in the process."

The host was flabbergasted.

''Um, ...(snicker), uh... And we'll be right back after these messages (snicker)..."

I really, truly wish I couldn't believe that story. But I can, all too easily.

Sad.