Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
Hormel was famous for buying a whole hog for less weight than they sold the meat for. So they would weigh a hog and say “Well, it is a 280 lb hog” and then sell 290 lbs of meat from that hog.
Anyone notices that disaster after disaster is taking more and more of the food produced in the USA? How long till the Grocery stores shelves are empty?
Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
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That’s how I grew up. My dad would go to the Livestock sale and
buy two shoats and come the fall they would be butchered for meat.
Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
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That’s how I grew up. My dad would go to the Livestock sale and
buy two shoats and come the fall they would be butchered for meat.
Sounds like an old wives tale that isn’t true. What that tale says is actually impossible. The live weight of a market hog of 200 lbs will shrink to a carcass weight of about 150 lbs. after slaughter. A loss of 25%. With a beef the shrinkage is greater. A 1200 lb steer will yield a dressed carcass of only about 800 lbs. A loss of 33%. All figures are approximate, but a rule of thumb.