Posted on 09/19/2009 5:43:40 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
...not allowed by the buyers: some particular associations of feedlot owners. Here’s an example from the small operations. One of the “organic” operations is owned by a teacher and a local government worker (”partners,” apparently “gay”). The two are related to corporates (one big Republican property developer and one Republican importer) work to stop any new property owners from building new houses.
...also saw many other small businesses shut down or prevented from starting by “environmentalist” members of such families. That’s why I’m also now politically “unaffiliated.” Our country is ruled by such bipartisan families at all levels including state and county. The corporate heads each donate to both political parties, pay lobbyists to continue social programs (to keep the potential competition—working class families—down).
I’m in the Northwest, near Kansas, BTW. ...left the Midwest, because it was getting to be the same way there but with more violence and drug involvements by “pillars” of those communities.
Thats because you are in flyover country. If its from the NE or West then its smart and trendy.
Multiply those by 3 to 5 bucks and you have what it costs around here.
“I share a pasture with an Angus bull.”
So you’ve been put out to pasture?
Actually there are new govt regulations for farmers markets and anyone selling or growing food.
/johnny
The gooberment can pound sand. I shall grow my food as I have always done, and trade or sell or give it away, as I have always done.
If they want me, they can come get me. This pasture has 3 bulls and one mean old grump with guns. It ain't necessarily safe for city boys with slick-bottomed loafers and a warrant to arrest for unlawful vegetables.
/johnny
I would guess this is much like the small dairy farms in the SW who got forced to stop selling to small buyers, instead having to sell through the co-op (racket).
EAT MOR CHIKUN!!
/johnny
Oh good grief, this goes on all the time here in the boonies.
We just split a Black Angus we a co-worker. It was 1100 lbs when it went to slaughter. We paid $300 to the rancher and $150 to the butcher and got over 225 lbs of meat. It is so good unlike anything you get from a market.
When working full time and trying to keep the cows in hay got to be too much, we had all our three cows butchered--two of them went totally into hamburger--and it was THE BEST hamburger I've ever eaten.
And of course every time we butchered a cow, my husband would relate the story of the time he and his brother-in-law decided to butcher a cow they'd raised together so that each could keep a half. As they stood over their respective sides of beef with knives keenly sharpened for the task at hand, the brother-in-law looked up and asked, with a totally straight face: "How in the heck are we supposed to know where to cut when there ain't no dotted lines?"
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I shop at HEB but it’s a Texas chain so you wouldn’t have them around you. We ate down the freezer a couple months ago to help save on the budget but now with good sales it’s full. Also found some off brand polish sausage for about a dollar so bought two of two flavors so hope they’re good. Can’t imagine how we’d be able to afford the prices around you.
It’s named after H. E. Butt so the old joke is that HEB was going to buy out Piggly Wiggly and become Wiggly Butt, lol!
http://www.heb.com/services/storeReview_showWeeklyAds.jsp?storeid=24
Nah. I eat cute little deer first. ;) I don’t think I’ve had beef in 15 years.
Dolly Parton is in negotiations with Piggly Wiggly, Harris Teeter, and Big Lots for a merger.
She’s going to call it “Big Wiggly Teeters!!”
Oh, you are sooo bad, lol!
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