How much meat does your family consume?

[Teach97]

Loves my meat!

Can't hardly beat that nice bacon...I prefer that mine comes from a large production operation...makes for more uniform meat. I also like the fact that it gives my family half of our income. Nice feedlot beef sure is good...plus it adds to our economy. Mostly we eat stuff we shoot. I am sure all my health problems result from my meat consumption and nothing to do with other issues like genetics and silly decisions like ice cream for a meal or over indulgence of beverages during my college years

 

[Buster52]

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But my profound respect. I admire them a great deal.

 

[Buster52]

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Howdy, farm girl.

We are now completely weaned from factory farmed meat. We raise almost all of our meat ourselves. What we don't we buy from a local grass farmer, along with raw milk. My place isn't big enough to raise beef, and ain't no way I'm milking anything after years spend doing so in my youth.

Next step is to take some of that milk he sells me and make my own butter and cheese. Then grow our own vegies and fruit.

And Teach, unless you have a feedlot in your community, buying meat directly from a local grass farmer is more likely to assist your local economy than feedlot beef.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Well, its just dh and I, but we do have plenty of company, and potluck every Sunday at church, so what I am about to detail, does get spread around a bit.

Last spring/summer/fall, we hunted and fished for the following, and will have eaten most of it by the beginning of bear season, which is coming soon.

1 two year old moose
4 bears
given the ribs off of 2 two year old moose
40 red salmon
3 or 4? King Salmon
Various other fish ( in fact, dh is out Pike fishing right now

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12 meat chickens we raised ourselves (doing many more this summer)
Plus, we were given most of the bones from a grass fed beef, for making bone broth, and at least 3/4 of the fat for making lard/tallow.
And we do save all the bones from our hunted meat as well.
Bone marrow broth cannot be beat, for the nutrition it provides.

I made almost 300 pounds of various sausages and plain grind meat last year, and as we want them, we make hams from certain roasts.

We eat the hearts and livers of all the animals, though most of that is ground into the sausages, where it it fully disguised.

And for those that are curious, bear meat is a truely delicious. The meat is slightly sweet, and very tender, with a fine grain. Not at all what you would imagine it to be.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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It would have more to do with what the animals are eating that causes problems, plus, any other processed foods you eat.
Real clean foods, especially nutrient dense ones from animals, can turn around poor health so fast

 

[farmerlor]

I would truly, truly love to put more fish in the freezer for my family to eat. Honestly, I'm afraid to buy the stuff at the store and there's no real fishing here anywhere. (I miss Iowa fishing so much)
Other than that, we have a pretty big family but probably only eat meat 4 nights a week. I'd say half and half beef and chicken. We eat a ham every month, a turkey every month and go through hundreds of pounds of pork sausage. I'd guess that we go through 4 pounds of bacon per year and the kids have a sandwich meat habit....sliced turkey, sliced ham.

 

[Teach97]

local economy...probably 200,000 thousand head of cattle on feed...couple million head of hogs killed each year...yup...it is our economy.

Paula - doubt it

 

[Sallyschickens]

sounds smelly

 

[Teach97]

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smells smelly as well...depending on wind direction

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

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Howdy, farm girl.

We are now completely weaned from factory farmed meat. We raise almost all of our meat ourselves. What we don't we buy from a local grass farmer, along with raw milk. My place isn't big enough to raise beef, and ain't no way I'm milking anything after years spend doing so in my youth.

Next step is to take some of that milk he sells me and make my own butter and cheese. Then grow our own vegies and fruit.

And Teach, unless you have a feedlot in your community, buying meat directly from a local grass farmer is more likely to assist your local economy than feedlot beef.

great job, Buster!

and you'll be happy to know that after all this time of being freaked out by standard meaties... we decided to take the plunge and get some cornish x's when the TSC has chicks. what changed our minds? the other nite we had some of the red broilers we grew out last year for supper...and decided we couldnt wait all summer for more! we'll do red broilers again but we'll push other folks down on the first 'chick days' to get those cornish x's!

do you have the home cheese making book by ricki carroll? Lehmans and The New England Cheese Co are great sources for cheese supplies... great that you can buy raw milk. went cant in this state - oh for a milk cow! until then goats will have to do
;-)