this just show how stupid they are if they really wanted price to go up gut/cut subsidies for soy and corn. Meat will go up in percentage, uou save money, you don’t look like asshole and you get the goal of making meat more pricey.
THey won’t touch this route because big ag has huge lobby and so does Bayer Monsanto and needs and won’t give up corperate welfare for poisoning us all.
I have people come up and ask why my meat is so expensive, hung weight for pork is $5.25 lb they pay for slaughter and cutting and processing. Total to 7.25 a lb when you in include bacon and hams cut and wrapped. It’s another $3.50 lb to make sausages. It comes from breed,feed,housing and care levels
Our pigs take 7-8 months to get to average weight of 150 lb carcass weight, meat is well marbled fat phobics need not buy as no lean cuts. They consume 6 lb of feed plus forrage to gain 1 lb total weight not hang Weight. A total weight live pig that hangs at 150 lb skinless weighs 350 lbs. 350 times 6 is 2100 lb of feed times 15 cents for non gmo feed is $350 in static cost per lb. Piglets if you buy are 150 for breed we use bershire. We breed our own but when selling weaned piglets at 2 months we get 150 a piglet. So a 150 lb pig times $5.50 is $825 now you need to deduct other soft costs like diatamcious earth, castration, fence repair, land reseed in fuel and wages plus any deaths, insurance, shipping to slaughterhouse, your time marketing the product.
Factory farmed pig from birth to death is 5.36 months. Fed pellets never see outside lives in a cage. Their meat has a fecal and chemical taste, you only notice once you eat clean meat. They are also full of antibiotics and growth hormones vaccinated chemical dewormer. But it is cheap at Walmart and costco lol.
We had a local restaraunt try our bacon, sausage, ham and chops.after 2 months they said not profitable enough, and went back 6 month later they came back, so many complaints, he showed me petition customers signed to ask him to bring back other products, they where even willing to pay more.
You all know the store bought chickens and turkeys the breast bone has this cartalidge part right? Real outside free run chicken with proper feed in 10 weeks to get to 5 lb average all those bones are solid, it’s hard to break the leg bones on my chickens after cooked. A commercial chicKen place can get from day old chicks to 5 lb in under 7 weeks the chickens can’t walk and sit next to feeder. They use massive amounts of antibiotics to make them survive that long , bio lab for antibiotic resistant bacteria and you eat it.
Chicken skin when u cooked is not white when healthy its a yellowish color like butter. If you want to see travesty masquerading as food watch a show called food inc.
When I do microbe test on my chicken and turkeys the pre bleach bath is lower than commercial post bath. Inspector actually buys poultry from me now. Is it more work yes, but I love my job and providing good clean meat.
Sadly regs are getting so bad and they closed local slaughter house that now, I have to ship pigs 10 hours to another place. Others are more messed up they can’t even find processing time, and have to sell live animals on auction.
We have applied for a class e slaughter and processing license will allow us to process and sell under 10,000kg a year. But to be very profitable we need to sell much more.
We have found away to maximize pork process 150 lb turns into 50 lb bacon 30 lb ham 70 lb of sausage the sausage extra ingrients adds the weight. And the loin chops and tenderloin To do that our cost including the pork is $1250 per pig uou get back about 150 lb of product.
$8.33 a lb is alot more than cheap meat, I have seen pork for under $3 a lb for raw cuts .
We eat on farm one cow 2 pigs and about 50 chicken and 12 turkeys not counting wild game per year. No way would we consider paying for that tax.
We can’t sell raw milk, I have been drinking it for years never been sick from it, though is won’t last long 5 days if you chill it fast in fridge after milking
Sorry about the rant, just seems so silly people who have no idea how food comes makes decisions on it, and take away our rights as informed adults to choose for ourself.
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