/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15266534
Yes. It was good, there's a local market service that connects growers and farmers with the public, you place your order once a week and it gets delivered to your door in an insulated bag with an ice pack. Leave last week's bag and ice pack on your door and they'll take it back so you don't accumulate bags but you can keep them if you want. It's called Market Wagon, you should see if they offer it in your city. You can get local produce, farmer made cheese or sausages, all kinds of shit on there.

Anyway, it's great. I buy it on occasion. The free range chicken and eggs are good too. It's not that expensive for me, so depending on what the price was it might not be worth, but I usually get two pounds of ground beef for around $12 I think so it's not that egregious.

>>15266534
Are you talking about going in on half or a quarter cow straight from the ranch? Or a yuppie service like >>15266571 tried? Because there is a big difference in what your getting.
If buying a cow by portion or whole the raiser will usually set the weight price and time of slaughter with you when the calf is still a few weeks old. They raise it and at the set time you line up with a locker that will go over cuts and percentages with you. They take a day maybe two to do the cuts and then you take possession of everything straight from their cooler and or table depending on how fast you get there. Its costly up front but since you are cutting out so many middle men in the distribution chain you still see a huge discount vs buying from a grocery store or butcher. And all your neat came from a single source which is very nice.
The yuppie service is a more costly option that usually gets you whatever was slaughtered that week at a higher price delivered to your door. Still a better quality probably than what you find in stores, and your not left with 200lbs of meat in your freezer, but it will vary what you can get from week to week, and they will charge more because its a "premium" service.

>>15266534
My dad buys either half a cow or half a pig every six months from a local rancher. The butcher cuts it up and packages it. Saves our family a bunch of money. Buying in bulk is the best option (if you are actually prepared to eat it all).

If you dont have a massive fridge, you could try splitting meat it with friends and colleagues.......but be wary, you will end up with alot of ground beef and sausage in comparison with the prime rib and other quality parts....so be prepared to eat alot of the same meat.

You get better meat in Albertson's, they have quality controls unlike your shady family farms

Guys. How do you chose the most delicious one? This sounds so stressful.

>>15266534
that is no natural cow. natural cows have horns.

>>15266534
Yes. OK. No.

>>15268133
-t Blizzard diversity hire that made quest to milk horned goats

>>15268094
>Albertsons
>Not Winco
Have fun paying three times the price for an inferior product

>>15268152
I beg your pardon?

>>15268180
Okay, beg.

>>15266534
no...im not an autistic weeb like yourself

>>15266534
Yes.
Enjoyable.
Yes.

>>15266534
Sooo my ex's family were cattle farmers, it's worth it if you care about local sustainability and the piece of mind to know where your meat came from. Now if that kinda shit doesn't matter to you then stick to your butcher at Kekmart or wherever. With all that said it's gonna taste, in lack of a better description, like dead, dead meat. That's the only word that comes to mind while I'm chewing.

>>15268222
>if you care about local sustainability and the piece of mind to know where your meat came from.
That's a large part of why I'm looking at this option, actually. I have a lot of problems with factory farming and pumping animals full of hormones and shit, so pasture-raised meat from a local farm that only distributes locally sounds like a very appealing alternative.

I actually find the pricing of locally raised grass fed organic beef to be incredibly cheap when you buy it directly from a farmer. Cutting out the middle man benefits both the farmer and you. You pay less, and he gets more profit.

The only downside is that it is less convenient and you need a big freezer if you're buying bulk.

You'd be crazy not to do it if you have the option. It's more affordable, healthier, more ethical, and you're supporting local sustainable food production which benefits you and your family long term.

>>15268264
> muh factory farming and pumping animals full of hormones and shit,

Gee is there any bullshit that millennials won't believe?

>>15268312
>It's more affordable, healthier, more ethical, and you're supporting local sustainable food production which benefits you and your family long term.

Its none of those things irs feel good nonsense to separate you from your money

>>15266534
I usually pick up free range grass fed when I buy ground beef, because I'm not into pink slime.

I've only had local family raised once and the cheese melted through the burger, it was that marbled. The 12 year old took it for walks, fed it marshmallows and played frisbee with it.

>>15266534
I’ve bought it at farmers markets. If you’re going out to a farm just get the whole half of beef and store it in a chest freezer.

>>15268342
>marbled burger

Super de duper Retard detected

>>15268319
Are you actually denying the well-known and documented existence and practices of factory farms?

>>15266534
Yes. If you are in the NE USA there are online services that will facilitate this like Walden.

>>15268342
>marshmallow-fed and frisbee-trained
suck it up, japs
the new king of all beef is here

>>15268319
Just drive by a feed lot. Shit is disgusting. Why would I want my meat from a cow that just spent the last 4 months wallowing in the shit and piss of 30,000 other cows and is probably diseased now?

>>15268395
You just repeat their silly buzzwords instead of thinking. Next you are going to tell me that factory cars or factory iphones or factory ice cream are bad.

>>15268417
Yeah you get diseased cows that wallow in shit and can't meet usda standards and pay extra because you read a glossy brochure about saving the planet

>>15268417
This. Try driving through west Texass. It's literally 300 miles of wall to wall cattle packed into feed lots from horizon to horizon. If you don't have a gas mask you'll be retching and gagging the entire time from the stench. You have to change clothes once you finally get through it, it's that bad.

>>15266534
Yes I would split it or get a quarter cow with a friend or family. We did it once but unfortunately my wife prefers super processed factory farm cow

>>15268432
I only buy certified cruelty free cars with iron sourced from free range wild cat miners and plastic and gasoline created from oil wells manned by Muslims, since they are so underdeveloped they lack the ability to understand pain like you or I.

>>15268443
And the stench is so bad yo keep making that 300 mile drive

>>15268362
I have no better way to describe how the cheese melted through the burger.

>>15268432
>Next you are going to tell me that factory cars or factory iphones or factory ice cream are bad.
The difference is that cars, iPhones, and ice cream aren't living creatures (to say nothing of the working conditions of the humans in some of those foreign factories). But I'll ask again, are you denying the poor living conditions of the animals, their overly-close proximity, and the use of growth hormones and poor quality food in so many nationally-distributing farms? Maybe these things don't particularly bother you, I'm not trying to judge you on that, but you can't just say that shit doesn't happen at all. If you really think the living conditions of KFC's chickens are the same as the pasture-raised chickens on family farms you're absolutely lying to yourself.

>>15268620
The problem is that everything you know is communist propaganda and yet you think you are smart

>>15268644
Nice strawman, but supporting independent farmers who treat their animals decently and process the meat w/o soaking it in fecal soup, in no way correlates to communism. In fact supporting enormous conglomerates who lobby and buy off the government to prevent oversight and receive enormous tax payer subsidies to block competition from smaller, humane farmers is much closer to communism, you absolute bootlicker.

>>15266534
Yeah my friends a farmer it’s worth it and easy if your not a citycuck

>>15266534
>no quality control whatsoever
yeah how about no.

>>15268709
You are subsidizing farmers who abuse their animals and pump them full of chemicals. Factory farmers treat their animals well because they have to by law

>>15268720
Good call on toasting the bun.
I assume you're a Wisconsinite?

>>15268732
Non-Whites are more likely to abuse animals than Whites. Buying locally from a farmer you will probably be buying from a White person.

Factory farms hire non-White immigrants who abuse animals.

>>15266534
We buy one or two pigs a year from a local farm and butcher them ourselves.
We get to pick it out when it's a little piglet and come visit it as often as we like to see that it's thriving. And to feed it treats to get that extra bit of fat on there.
A nice happy piggy that we know has spent its life rutting around in the filth and eating slop. Just as God intended.
I don't think it ends up being more expensive than pork from the store either. You can get some very cheap pork around here, but then you're limited to a few cuts. When you buy a whole pig you obviously get all the cuts. We pay a price per pound the animal weighs and it works out nicely. I don't remember what we paid for the last one because I don't handle the money, but it was very reasonable.

I live out in the country and have hay that I sell to my neighbor who raises cattle. I buy beef from him. Lots of people in the area buy his beef. I can literally drive by and see his cows and the pastures where they are raised.

The retards defending big factory farns dont understand that the animals have to be pumped full of shit like antibiotics or they will get sick and die because of the living conditions

>>15268644
Growth hormones aren't allowed in chickens, but they are in cattle. And that still doesn't address the quality of their living conditions or feed.

>>15268732
Why do you lie? It's become a habit with you conservitards lately. I'm a mutt, so I'm well aware that non-factory farms that market their products have to comply with USDA standards. For some bizarre reason, you feel compelled to white knight megacorporate conglomerates who are hellbent on squashing legitimate competition from independents who produce a better product through humane and clean practises.

An interesting case study is Poland under Soviet communism. They stood their ground and refused to corrupt their long tradition of independent sausage/cured meat producers, refusing to permit the Soviet supported megacorporate conglomerates producing absolute shit products just like in the US, from labeling their products as being the traditional product. Infuriated the Soviets, but the Poles remained inflexible.

Scrape the boot polish off your tongue and you might be able to experience the difference, bootlicker.

>>15268732
>You are subsidizing farmers who abuse their animals and pump them full of chemicals.
Nice try, but that's not the case. Local farms around here specifically advertise the fact that they do NOT use chemicals/hormones/whathaveyou, have certifications and test results to back that up, and they all tend to have open-door policies that allow anyone to come and visit any part of the farm at any time. If they were lying, they'd be sued for false advertising and lose their certifications and their open door policies mean that they'd be found out very quickly if there was any kind of abuse going on.

>>15268796
Factory farms have better conditions for animals than family cute animal slaughterhouses

Where I live the cattle are mostly pasture raised. The hogs and chickens are raised in confinements. Ive worked in these places and they are disgusting. I have a friend who farms hogs. Each building holds 1000 and they are rammed in there. The hogs are given shots to keep them healthy. He had a contract with Panera to raise anti iotic free hogs, but they were still in a confinement so they were sick. They were coughing and not moving well.

We have cage free chickens out here and the only regulation is that each chicken has 1 square foot of space. They just put up a building and do the math and start ramming in chickens

>>15268803
You call yourself a mutt you are a self hating idiot raised by roasties whiteknighting for rich farmers who abuse their workers and animals in concentration camps instead of the common man who works in a factory raising happy animals in modern comfort climate controlled and properly fed.

>>15268831
Are you seriously this retarded or just bored and want to communicate with people?

>>15268803
Its a fact that small farms get busted for mistreating animals much more than big meat companies.

>>15268844
Sorry kidfo, but you're obviously just posting utterly stupid shit now, get your jollies from some other anon or thread, I'm done with your bs.

>>15268865
Its ok you hate yourself but no one will take you seriously kid

>>15268844
We have a meat packing plant by me. The people who work there are felons and mexicans because there are no background checks. The school there has 2 versions of tests with 1 in spanish. Those factories ruin towns.

>>15266534
Not cheaper per lb., but it is so filling, you can only eat so much until your body says "I'm totally satisfied." The relaxation/satisfaction effect of a good grass fed beef is unreal. If you have a freezer, do it. Same with pastured poultry.

>>15266534
Yeah my family will go in on a cow together and just split it up. It's from my uncle's farm. It's good and worth the price. You get a lot of meat

>>15268432
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>15270017

>>15268319
>>15268732
What's with all of the shills rimming big ag's asshole on this board? Is their propaganda really that effective or is /ck/ visited by defensive Tyson factory line wagies?
>>15268438
You have clearly never driven past a factory farm if you think that the pasture-raised ones wallow in their own shit
>>15268644
>cows are poultry
>having quality standards is communism

When I used to go to the country side with some of my homes, I saw cows running free on th emountain with even calfs. I came up with this sick idea, kidnapping, killing and eating one baby calf. Never did it but I wish I did.

>>15271062
Big AG feeds us
Big AG protects the environment
Big AG cares for creatures large and small
Big AG is love
Big AG is life

>>15271113
We get our meat from big ag. We have always gotten our meat from big ag.

I get my cow flesh from the grocery store like a normal person