Hunting vs. Store bought meat.

[leftiye]

Yeah, and milk comes from.., WHERE??? Oh my gawd!

Why, out of the right spout on the separator, of course.

[Wolfer]

I've always said the three biggest problems with kids in the world were TV, air cond, and processed meat.
When I was young we didn't have TV to set around and watch. No AC so you couldn't stay in the house in the summer thru the day. If we had chicken for dinner we just picked out which one and if we could catch it we could eat it.
However in my older years I kinda like AC and a little TV sometimes but most of my meat dies by my own hand.

[wolfe28]

This about sums it up.

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[flipajig]

I process all my own meat veggies and fruit
If I want pork I kill and bucher it myself from bacon to pork chops and sausage
For red meat deer fill my freezer from steaks roasts and ground meat
The rest comes out of my garden trees from friends we share and share alike.
Flip

[Stephen Cohen]

Every time I open these pages, I realise how similar our countries are. Our populations are made up of the same sort of morons, thank god we few got the intelligence gene.

[Yukoner]

Many don't believe it, but meat grows on trees where I come from.



My buddy with some we tied up to bring home this Fall.

Ted

[x101airborne]

HAH! That's a good one, Ted. Right on.

[dk17hmr]

When I first started dating my wife I could barely get her in the barn to look at the deer I had hanging. 7 years later she is helping me grind and package meat in our kitchen. She enjoys the meat I bring home so she helps put it up. She wasn't oblivious to where meat came from she just never got it anywhere but the grocery store. When we have kids you can bet they will know how to shoot a rifle, sharpen a knife on a stone not one of those plastic things, and they will know how to cut and put up meat. Its an important part of our life and it is knowledge that needs to be passed on, even my wife agrees with that.

[MT Gianni]

SIL turned down 1/2 a beef from my parents for a few years running. The fact that is was killed at home was enough to turn her off though a processing plant cut it. No usda grade didn't help.

[wv109323]

I was with a co-worker and somehow we got onto the different cuts of meat. HE was near 30 y.o. and wanted to know part of the cow bologna came from.

[Wolfer]

My cousins best friend was a butcher. We were visiting one day and he said some woman had brought a hog in and on her list was she wanted some Spam. She was pretty irate what she picked up her meat and there was no spam. He also said he'd had several people ask that their whole hog be made into pork chops.

[blikseme300]

You would be surprised how many people think there is a meat making machine in the back of the grocery.

Yeah, right next to the machines that make milk and eggs!

[DxieLandMan]

Haven't bought any beef in over 4 years. Been eating game (elk, deer, antelope).

[rush1886]

My wife was born and raised in Chicago. She is of east european heritage, so was no stranger to the idea of sausages, sauerkraut,etc, but had never had the opportunity to partake of wild game. After 21 yrs of marriage, she makes sure I get in all my "control hunt" applications on time, helps me pack my gear for the hunt, and is waiting at the back door, sharpened boning knife in hand, when I get home.
Last year she was right there, beginning to end, to get thru the cut and wrap of not only my moose, but the neighbors elk as well. She's still not 100% sure what is sirloin, round, or butt, but she openly tells everyone, "sure beats that **** out of the grocery store"!

I think I'll keep her!

[arjacobson]

And chicken eggs? LOL

Why, out of the right spout on the separator, of course.

[Just Duke]

And chicken eggs? LOL

Well they come out of a box. Duh!

[TXGunNut]

I buy very little meat. I don't digest beef very well and every hog I've butchered lately smelled better than the store-bought pork I buy to raise the fat content. A city-boy cousin saw a photo of my fresh-made Italian sausage on Facebook last year and asked "how much for five pounds of that?" I told him to take a hunter safety course and get a license, I'd help him with the rest. I'm afraid he's stuck w/ store-bought, his wife doesn't much care for guns & such.

[Norbrat]

Last night I watched the film Food, Inc on TV. Puts you off any store bought food!

[oldred]

What gets me about these idiots who scream about the brutality of hunting is that the animals we kill are usually dispatched in a much more humane way than what nature usually has in store for them, do they honestly think all these wild critters just get old and retire until they die of old age? How many animals actually become old? Take that cute little bunny rabbit for instance, what is the usual demise of a wild rabbit? Torn apart and eaten alive by a fox, bobcat, hawk, owl, dog or any number of other predators but the bottom line is it WILL die a violent death sooner or later that is in all likelihood going to be more violent and prolonged than a properly placed gunshot. I once tried to explain that to one of these idiots (there I called them that again!) but was told that whatever might happen in nature is "natural"- Huh? Well I guess it is but my hunting is just a natural instinct also and I do it much more humanely than what "nature" has in store for 99% of all the wild animals out there, think about it- how many wild animals are going to die a natural death of old age?

[Just Duke]

Last night I watched the film Food, Inc on TV. Puts you off any store bought food!

We saw it too.