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LaTigresse -> RE: Before you grill it, ya gotta kill it (9/2/2012 1:02:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama
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I would love to guarantee that every bite of bacon or hamburger was raised in a manner that parallels my morals of how a living feeling being should be treated. Unfortunately I simply cannot afford to. My finances are stretched to the max as it is.
I do spend more on meat but I make up the difference by eating out extremely rarely and never buying processed food. I buy grains in bulk. I get veggies and eggs from local farmstands. I only buy meat when it's on sale, and for the vast majority of the time, it's the cheapest cuts of chicken.
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I understand. I don't even remember the last time I ate out. I am not in love with chicken, prefer beef and pork.
Love farmer's markets but also, as I've learned, just because a farmerish looking person is standing behind a fold up table of tomatoes, doesn't mean they were the ones that grew them. More and more vendors as such things are purchasing produce from others and selling it more expensively than a person could get the same thing at grocery store. The farmer that runs around the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area, selling 'grass fed' meat, sells it at a premium price. The quality is worse than the meat I've seen sold at the local Walmarts. In Washington Iowa there was a woman selling fresh peaches and apples. When pressed, she admitted had purchased them from orchards in Missouri, the same orchards that are selling the same produce to our local chain grocers. The only difference is that hers were much more expensive that those at HyVee.
Certainly, those can be viable options but consumers do need to do the research on the vendors at their local farmer's markets.
We are lucky with our grains and such. Because we have a large population of Amish around, they have their own grocery stores. Grains, nuts, flours, common spices and dry seasonings are much less expensive usually. However their canned goods are usually seconds and expired, and no less expensive. You can also get locally grown produce from them. They do not have an aversion to using chemicals so that must be taken into consideration.
Also, if a person is anti farm animal abuse, Amish purchases would not be at the top of my list. They own some of the largest, and worst, puppy mills in the state of Iowa.
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