Yep. BTW, we get our meat by splitting a steer with a friend and have a local butcher cut it up for us. It’s not all THAT cheap, but it’s a lot better for us. e.g. I have no problem with eating it raw. BTW, the last one, after removing all “non-meat” parts and paying for the butcher cost us $7 a lb. But that includes EVERYTHING. And we got some spectacular filet mignon (not to mention lots of other stuff) out of it.
Yep, the poor give their kids an EBT card and they use it to buy candy and soda at the gas station. They don’t care. I work on a lot of rentals and the EBT people have a huge stock pile of food.
I look at the weekly ads and buy whats on sale... and I can tell a good steak from a tuff piece of crap. I can pull prime pretty easy.
Im also lucky that my neighbor / great friend, raises his own steer, and when he brings it home from the butcher, he cleans out his freezer to make room and I get a lot of free last years beef from him. He’s also a mobile slaughter’er. He has a great business booked up for a year.
He’s told be the same thing about the USDA inspector issue. But I think they have relaxed it a little bit.
My daughter raised a lamb for FFA, I had to buy it, $9 a pound on hoof but thats a special project thing, she gets the money to save for college. But I know whats in it.
$7 a pound is not bad for good beef.