What do you think about the way America is raising our food today???

[Wifezilla]

A farmer or rancher who doesn't care for and do the best for their livestock is not going to be in business very long.

While I agree with this, I disagree with this...

THERE ARE NO FACTORY FARMS

I consider a CAFO to be a factory farm. I consider chickens raised in a large warehouse with no natural light and access to grass/greens as raised in a factory farm.

I also consider people who think that meat spontaneously generates on a styrofoam tray in a supermarket display case to be complete morons.

So for those who did not like Food, Inc., which part did you find to be the most inaccurate?​

 

[TLWR]

Ok, so while on the topic of my meat...
how does one go about finding a place to get local meat/poultry?

I wasn't raised raising my own meat (ok, pigs when I was 5, but nobody told me they were not pets, so when they were no longer in our back yard and our freezer was full of pork, I quickly figured out where pork came from and didn't eat it for quite some time - they were PETS to me!), so I have no desire to raise my own meat now.
I'd be happy to pay, a reasonable amount, to have somebody else do it and hand over my packaged meat.

I hear lots of people talk about 1/4 or 1/2 a cow. We don't eat that much beef. We eat chicken. Lots of chicken.
How do I find happy healthy chicken locally? Short of the ones that run into the road around here...
And if I only want boneless/skinless breasts and maybe the necks for the dogs... how do I get that specific and not end up with a bird to finish cutting and deboning myself?
Or is a full bird my only option and the dogs now start eating some necks, wings, thighs and the meat from the legs?

 

[Davaroo]

"I also consider people who think that meat spontaneously generates on a styrofoam tray in a supermarket display case to be complete morons."

I consider people who think that people who think that meat spontaneously generates on styrofoam trays are condescending.

That whole "styrofoam tray" thing is such a load of rhetoric, 'Zilla. I'm surprised you, of all people, are repeating it.
No one outside of kindergarten suffers from delusions about where meat comes from - they just trust it's all good, or they ignore the issue in the interests of eating.

 

[DuckLady]

Please see the rules

Especially
2. No discussions about animal rights organizations or Cock fighting

Thanks