If you buy meat from the store, how the heck do you think it got there

[WalkingWolf]

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If you have ever had the nuggets from some fast food places I believe it is actually recycled cardboard.

 

[enola]

....and popcorn chicken is just the pits ! Yet I see people eating them every day at work.

 

[dichotomymom]

Hehe! they are the pits alright......

 

[ssledoux]

Precisely what I was thinking; can you really call a chicken mcnugget chicken?

I also get really irritated with people who say these types of things. If you eat meat, animals have to die - PERIOD! Why can't people just get that through their heads? And I'd much rather them have a nice, peaceful life, free-ranging like normal animals than being raised with steroids, antibiotics and standing in 3-ft deep manure.

I mean really people - what is the world coming to?

I rarely, if ever, purchase meat from the store. When I do, I buy free-range from Whole Foods. My sister is our beef source. My husband deer hunts. We had a chicken source but now that will be US. And we're probably going to do the rabbits.

The only thing I can't do is pork because pigs are so darn intelligent I just don't think I could raise one and then kill it. We do eat wild boar when we can, and I buy grass-fed pork at Whole Foods.

I just get SO angry when people say stupid things.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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How many here remember when you went to the store to buy a chicken and came home with a live one?

I read a story that an old lady wrote, and she said they lived in an old farm house way back off the road, and if her mom saw dust coming down the road, she would have chicken killed and plucked and ready to fry by the time the visitors arrived. Can you just see us doing that in this day and age?

 

[mrsgibber]

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[Buck Creek Chickens]

Faux food is the norm, YUK

I just took chicks to school for show n tell at a rural school and these kids really didn't know what it's all about, what do you do with them all, the chicks? most had never even seen a baby chick.

 

[mrsgibber]

I EAT MEAT! I LOVE MEAT! Sorry, but that's how I was raised. Lately I am really getting into buying food raised on local farms (need to find another one here in CT) because I like knowing where the heck it came from, that it had a decent life grazing grassy green fields before it was butchered.

Having said that, I would love to raise a few meat birds but being the big whimp I am I would not be able to kill it myself. My husband probably would...he knows if anything happens and we have to cull a bird he's in charge...but do you bring the birds to the butcher live if you aren't butchering them youself?

Just wondering.

 

[dichotomymom]

Check out gardengirltv on youtube. She doesn't do her own processing but takes them live to be done.......

 

[babymakes6]

My sister lives on a dairy farm, so they have their own beef. Last summer, a guy came around with a freezer box on his truck selling beef. She told him they weren't interested because they do their own. He was dumbfounded and asked "you mean you really kill those poor cows?"
She replied "what do you think you're trying to sell?"
Some people just don"t get it!