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Beef03 · Mar 3, 2013

JR said:

HC & I buy about 99% of our meat from about four different farmers within about 100 kilometres of here.

One of the farmers sends everything to a local abattoir but the farm butchers everything in their own facility. They have pastured raised chickens in the summer that will be processed after about three months and their average weight is 9-14 lbs. We know exactly what we're buying and we know that all animals are treated humanely. And best of all, everything---beef, lamb, chickens and pork taste significantly better.

The problem here is that the final product that you buy from most supermarkets has gone through so many hands in the industrial process that it's almost impossible to trace the source of everything that's in the burger or ground beef you're buying. And the FDA has basically allowed the large corporations to dictate things like packaging and what can be claimed as "organic", most of which is bullshit.

My brother was a vegetarian for about a decade, not because he thought eating meat was morally wrong, but because he didn't know where it was coming from. He's returned to eating meat now that he lives in rural Ontario and buys directly from the source (or from a local farmer's market)

The idea that eating horse meat is somehow more objectionable than beef, lamb or pig is a North American prejudice. Europeans eat it regularly

And horse meat or not, IKEA''s meatballs with their lingonberry sauce are delicious. And yes, you can buy them in their store.
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I go to a local meat market where all of their meat is locally sourced. Pretty sure they're butchering it in the back. They make their own sausages as well. Cuts are always better and price is usally pretty comparable, if not cheaper. Only time I buy meat from the grocery store now is if I absolutely need something and the meat market is already closed for the night. Why anyone would buy the bulk of their meat at a supermarket is beyond me.

Many moons ago, when I was working in a gravel pit during my first and second year of college, one of the guys I worked told me how 98% of the meat his family eats, he hunts -- deer, bear, moose, elk, etc. The only time they don't eat game is when they have company over that isn't big on game meat. Healthier and I believe cheaper than the grocery store.

JR · Mar 3, 2013

Beef03 said:

Many moons ago, when I was working in a gravel pit during my first and second year of college, one of the guys I worked told me how 98% of the meat his family eats, he hunts -- deer, bear, moose, elk, etc. The only time they don't eat game is when they have company over that isn't big on game meat. Healthier and I believe cheaper than the grocery store.
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About the only animals we could hunt in our Toronto neighbourhood are raccoons, squirrels and possum

The Big Ragu · Mar 4, 2013

JR said:

Beef03 said:

Many moons ago, when I was working in a gravel pit during my first and second year of college, one of the guys I worked told me how 98% of the meat his family eats, he hunts -- deer, bear, moose, elk, etc. The only time they don't eat game is when they have company over that isn't big on game meat. Healthier and I believe cheaper than the grocery store.
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About the only animals we could hunt in our Toronto neighbourhood are raccoons, squirrels and possum
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This is why I was laughing when someone on that other thread brought up some "eat live a caveman diet." Forget the fact that an apple in a store today doesn't even resemble an apple from 50 years ago (about the third of the iron, but bred by be cosmetically pretty or more sugary in some way). Just in terms of your meat. ... Good luck trying to find that wild game that you can kill with a rock.

As for the IKEA meatballs, I also laughed when the Wall Street Journal referred to them as "IKEA's Iconic Meatball" in their story. I am really out of the mainstream.

Vombatus · Mar 4, 2013

This reminds me of a restaurant idea I had after the 2007 and 2008 Ky Derbies. You could have a menu featuring Eight Belles Chili and the infamous and delicious Barbaro Burger.

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