More reason: The meat is a real problem IMO

[reinbeau]

I know I need meat in my diet, just good quality, grass-fed, organic meat for me here, though. I really can't stand supermarket meat anymore.

 

[freemotion]

We can get bison in the supermarket in one pound packages. It is a great alternative when you can't find grass-fed. Bison can't be kept in feedlots, they become too dangerous.

 

[dacjohns]

I'm not saying it isn't so but look at the website and consider the source.

 

[me&thegals]

I love meat --but I like MY FARM meats. Seriously, the stuff on the market today is just scary....well heck most foods on the market today are scary..HAHA

Absolutely true! I forgot to mention that we eat meat, just nearly exclusively meat we have grown or hunted. THAT meat is fabulous!

I remember trying out a McD's quarter pounder after reading Don't Eat This Book (the book version of SuperSize Me). I had to work so hard to literally not gag it all right back up. Have you ever taken the bun off fast food (except Culver's!) burgers? Think you could still eat them?

 

[me&thegals]

hey Me&thegals

were you always a light meat eater or did you truly not like meats etc.

Most of my growing up years, my parents were fairly poor. We didn't get quality meat and my mom didn't know how to fix the free meat (venison). Then, I went to college where calling the entrees *meat* would be a large stretch of the imagination. I went meatless all through college.

These days, I really enjoy really, really good meat. Seriously enjoy it. I think, though, that years of bad meat has created eating habits where I could easily go days and weeks without meat (not eggs and cheese, though!). But, I'm married to a dyed-in-the-wool, midwestern, meat-and-potatoes guy, so we eat meat.

My fave is venison tenderloin with stir fried mushrooms, red peppers, garlic and onions. Oh yum.

The storebought stuff, though, like WM quality, just gives me the willies. I have no problem with the locally grown and butchered meat shops, but they're pretty pricy.

 

[me&thegals]

I'm not saying it isn't so but look at the website and consider the source.

I agree, but all the reading, tasting and hearing about factory meat these days makes me avoid the stuff anyway.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

If I'm not badly mistaken, ammoniated meat was addressed in Food, Inc as well.

So with the animals mushing around in ankle deep manure, eating grain that acidifies their system and helps create E coli that isn't killed by stomach acid, being injected with hormones, antibiotics, wormers and more "proactively", running through a slaughterhouse where their manure coated bodies bump against everything, being sprayed with ammonia & chlorine to kill the bugs in said manure, and let's not forget the runoff from the confinement that leaches that acid resistant E coli into spinach fields... well, I don't see how anyone can honestly say that the meat industry is A-Okay.

 

[Wifezilla]

Meat is not a problem. CAFOs are the problem. So why do these stories blame the meat and not the method?

WHEAT can be a huge problem when it is prepared incorrectly. Correctly prepared? Not as healthy as meat, but still ok.

It's the system, not the raw material.

 

[FarmerChick]

Stuff like this is why we buy all of our meat from neighbors we trust and process it ourselves, shoot it and process it ourselves, or in a real pinch buy it from a trusted butcher that only buys locally.
That reminds me, I have to get a roast out of the freezer for dinner this evening.............

I got a big old roast in the crock pot right now.
small piece of meat and giant salad for dinner for me.
Tony, giant meat and some rice and bisucuits.
we eat so different in this house, and hey, we are all alive....
so far

 

[hikerchick]

Meat is not a problem. CAFOs are the problem. So why do these stories blame the meat and not the method?

WHEAT can be a huge problem when it is prepared incorrectly. Correctly prepared? Not as healthy as meat, but still ok.

It's the system, not the raw material.

At least wheat isn't being dragged through it's own poop.