Tue, Oct-12-10, 16:52
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Posts: 736
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Plan: Meats & Veggies
Stats: 255/167/160
BF:??/36%/25%
Progress: 93%
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Unfortunately, the PETA videos are largely true. I'm sure they pick the worst of the worst, but several movies (Food Inc for example) have shown similar footage. Commercially raised animals suffer horrific conditions, just so the US can maintain the cheapest nation to eat ranking.
Grass fed is more expensive if you buy it in the store. We purchase free range beef from a local farmer, and it works out to about $3.50 per pound. The local grass fed farmer works out to about $4.25 per pound. That includes everything, from burger worthy meat to New York strips. It helps if you have someone to go halvzies (or quarterzies) with, since a whole cow is a LOT of meat!
(For reference, we got 1/4 cow and 1/2 pig last year, and we still have enough to go until the next purchase with a family of six and plenty of entertaining.)
The stuff we got was still fed on grains part of the time, but we could verify personally that the cow was raised humanely. We were also able to talk to the butcher who did the slaughtering and find out their practices. Another perk of buying by the cow is that the slaughter is done one by one instead of assembly line style. The butcher can give much more attention to the individual kill, making it cleaner and more humane.
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