Gound meaat
Went with the Wife to store, today. Went Sams Club. She waanted hamburger meat. Went over to select a chuck roast and have ti ground coarse. "Butcher" said he couldn't do it. Policy won't allow it. ...
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ksbowman wrote:
This is why I feel blessed to live on a farm and raise our own beef. The neighbor raises hogs, so all of our meat is grown and butchered here locally. We have a very good locker plant, family owned that does our butchering, except our wild game and I do that. I have an old Oster grinder and it does a great on small jobs.
Ditto. We have a cattle feeding operation and always have our own beef butchered at the local shop. The majority of our cattle are sold at a stock sale as prime or choice. Because of that we have very little ground beef made when we butcher. Neighbors who are dairy farmers often have an older cow taken in and made solely into ground beef and it's the best lean ground beef we can get. We buy ground beef from them..they buy a half a beef from us. Remember older animals are used for this purpose. If you live in a rural community and listen to the stockyard reports you often hear that they are selling X number of bologna bulls. Old bulls who have done their "duty". Buyers for companies that make processed meats want these animals. There is nothing wrong with the meat, it's just not as tender and marbled as younger animals and is what companies like Campbells use for beef based products or many companies use for hotdogs and the like.
