TYSON made us sad

[farm_mom]

The good news is guys, we don't have to support the system. Visit www.localharvest.org and support your local small farmers who raise animals the way you think they should be treated. We haven't eaten factory farmed meat for over a year and we're very happy with our decision. We know the farmers who raise our beef and pork, we can see the animals out on pasture living the lives they were meant to live. Try it, you'll never go back to Tyson or Smithfield again, I guarantee it!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

I agree with farm-mom ---- We need to get back to neighbor supporting neighbor and get back to growing our own veggies and possibly raising our meat. Within the next 2 years we are going to purchase a milk cow and 2 hogs for meat and so on.

Let's all on BYC get back to the basics of life.

P.S.-- It funny when yo go to the Dr. and he says "You need an Antibiotic" and you say "No I don't, I ate chicken last night"

Some will get this joke and some won't.

 

[hooligan]

I have my eggs listed on Local Harvest and since my bf still drinks milk I am getting it from a local family with milk cows (well I will be as soon as they have more available). I also hope to get cheese this way soon

 

[farm_mom]

We drink raw milk from a local dairy farm as well. And get homemade butter and cheeses...yum! It is illegal in MI to buy raw milk, so we have to buy a share in a cow ($60 a year) and that's how we get through the legal loophole. We "own" the cow !!

I found mine at realmilk.com

 

[hooligan]

Its illegal in AR too so we buy the 'container'

Its crazy to think we could be breaking the law by buying milk!

 

[Ericasl]

I am glad I have never seen a truck packed with chickens like that. I am even more glad me have bought a pig and a cow from a local farmer. What they are putting in our food is so wrong. I do buy organic milk and my garden is really going to be alot bigger this year. Last summer my dh and I made all of our own pickles and relish, It was nice not having to buy any at the store all year and we even gave some as gifts at x-mas people loved them.

 

[mmajw]

That is exactly why I raise my own meat birds. I can not eat or have my kids eat anything that has been treated that way. We raise our own cows and pigs too. Maybe if more people raise their own then the demand we be down and not so many would be treated that way.

 

[hooligan]

I think its important for ppl to see just where their food came from and what conditions they were in before slaughter.
More people care about the pedigree of their dog than what they put in their mouth.

 

[Reinbeau]

Quote:
I got it!

 

[greyfields]

It's the same deal with Foster Farms here in the PNW. I guess at some level, when I see the 18 wheelers whipping down the highway at 70 mph, I feel sorta happy for the broilers since that was the first time they ever saw the sun or fresh air. 98% of chicken in the US is raised and processed in that manner. Only 2% is raised under any kind of circumstance which I would consider humane. But people want whole fryers for $0.99 per pound and don't realize they're condoning factory farming by buying crappy, cheap chicken.

Foster Farms (and I assume Tyson) doesn't own a single farm or chicken. They are simply clearing houses for the processing, packaging, labeling and selling of procssed birds. They contract out to broiler farms for X number of chickens ever Y number of days. I read that average farming makes $0.12 per chicken sold this way.