Oh, the Hippies these days. We've been doing this for ages...along with all the FREE venison we get from friends and relatives.
Everything old IS new again, ain't it? ;)
I have been thinking the same thing. I have canned, frozen and put up food for years now, grown our own vegetables and raised and hunted our own meat and now it is trendy?
Mel’s Char Palace!
My family splits a cow with another family. Its awesome. So much beef.
I remember the day I first bought a steak. It nearly killed me because I’d been raised on our own home grown stock.
$3 - $5 a pound?!? You’ve got to be kidding. I refuse to pay much over $2. Was at the store this morning and finished stocking the freezer:
$1 - chicken breasts
$1 - country style pork ribs
$1.99 - boneless thick center cut butterfly pork chops
$1.99 - catfish fillets
$2.99 - sirloin (splurged only because we’re having a celebratory dinner)
Ain't that the truth.
We used to go to the MI state fair.
Every year some little Angus calf would fall in love with me. I don’t know why but it just seemed to happen. I would pet her head and she would moo after me. My kids thought it was funny.
I knew she was a future meal and stopped going in to see the cows.
If anyone in MI would like to split a cow, PM me. I prefer to say away from the Angus beef for some reason...
In my area, the costs are much higher. Most of the ranchers say that they are not allowed to sell to locals at all. Cattle have to go out by the truckload to particular feed lot buyers (bypassing the auctions).
The rest are all “organic” ranchers (school teachers, local regulatory/gatekeeping government employees, etc.—the Mob). They charge $1.00 per pound on the hoof plus $3,00 per pound for slaughter and butcher. ...no sales of beef on the hoof to neighbors.
This definition would be quite a surprise to a slaughterhouse.
Hanging weight is actually the weight of a side of beef ready to be cut into consumer cuts.
I suspect PETA would pitch a fit if they hung a cow up to weigh it before slaughter. LOL
I am also amused by the constant reference in the article to "cows," when of course most of the meat purchased this way would be from steers. Unless you get an old worn-out dairy cow. LOL again.
Thats because you are in flyover country. If its from the NE or West then its smart and trendy.
Oh good grief, this goes on all the time here in the boonies.
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