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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78858206  United States04/29/2020 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was happy as my supply, and my family's supplies are dwindling. After checking all butchers in a large radius I have to turn him down. The soonest I can get them butchered is late October. Quoting: ~Fire Watch~ $9.00/lb. for ground beef at my local butcher shop. Most pork producers are euthanizing all of their piglets. Fucked up times... Elaine, are you going to fuck them all? |
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 User ID: 78503183 United States04/29/2020 06:54 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Butchering a steer ain't that bad. For a bandsaw, find an old Craftsman and get fine toothed blade. Set up a fence to help give you the thickness you need. This will get you the steaks. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75136688 For hamburger you can find an old sausage grinder and fit a large pulley to it and a very small pulley on an old motor from a dryer. But watch out, the cast iron blades are easy to break. Nowadays I'd just buy the grinder off amazon and plug it in. There are ways around all this bullshit, we should have already been practicing this stuff. I have the grinder and saw. These cows are in the pasture two hours away. I thought about this for a day. I am not set up for this. This is not the Time to be Negative , find a friend to help You ... You said it Yourself ( Your Families supplies are getting low ) think about it for another day ... People don't care how much You know ... till they know how much You care ... |
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(OP) User ID: 77016380 United States04/29/2020 06:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was happy as my supply, and my family's supplies are dwindling. After checking all butchers in a large radius I have to turn him down. The soonest I can get them butchered is late October. Quoting: ~Fire Watch~ $9.00/lb. for ground beef at my local butcher shop. Most pork producers are euthanizing all of their piglets. Fucked up times... Many big game hunters could gut and butcher it. I’m sure someone would do it for some free meat Send me their contact info. Are they worried about cleanliness?? ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
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(OP) User ID: 77016380 United States04/29/2020 06:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was happy as my supply, and my family's supplies are dwindling. After checking all butchers in a large radius I have to turn him down. The soonest I can get them butchered is late October. Quoting: ~Fire Watch~ $9.00/lb. for ground beef at my local butcher shop. Most pork producers are euthanizing all of their piglets. Fucked up times... Elaine, are you going to fuck them all? :) ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
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(OP) User ID: 76946022 United States04/29/2020 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Last Edited by ~Fire Watch~ on 05/03/2020 01:11 PM ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76531980 United States04/30/2020 07:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1) Make friends with a muslim. Halal slaughter done on site is humane and relatively easy. Give them a share for the help. Quoting: hardscrabble farmer 76531980 2) No farmers are euthanizing chickens, pigs or cattle. CAFO's may be (that's industrial agriculture, not farming) but real farms don't have to meet weight guidelines or feed quotas. I wish I could meet the new demand we've had for our chickens, pork and beef. Our business has never been better. 3) Never look a gift horse in the mouth. When someone makes a generous offer, especially one that will feed your family, FIGURE IT OUT. How lazy or incompetent can you possibly be to let that opportunity slip through your hands? Go away, m'kay. You don't have a clue what you are talking about. My family and I will have beef either way. I don't need a handout. My point wasn't that I was about to starve. I am only sharing with GLP the state of our food system...it is dire. These are the people who feed the world. I operate and live on a family farm that is very successful both economically, personally, and in terms of the community. How exactly does that imply I haven't a clue? The reason the "people who feed the world" are failing so miserably right now, to the point that they will euthanize livestock, is that Industrial Agriculture is a poor model subject to all types of disruptions. This time gives us an opportunity to reexamine our beliefs about what constitutes farming and sound practices and what is simply another boondoggle just waiting to collapse under the weight of it's own falsehoods. But just keep bitching, that's an option too. |
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(OP) User ID: 78898227 United States05/14/2020 07:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not so easy...come pick them up. No shit...come pick them up. There is no one to process them. You can't drop off four live steers at the local food pantry ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77119396 United States05/14/2020 08:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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(OP) User ID: 78898227 United States05/14/2020 09:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Same situation here. People practically giving hogs and steers away. Butchers are booked up for months. A relative of mine is a butcher, he can't get to anything until August. Quoting: Mother Knows Best November here. ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
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(OP) User ID: 78898227 United States05/14/2020 09:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not so easy...come pick them up. No shit...come pick them up. There is no one to process them. You can't drop off four live steers at the local food pantry Where am I going?  Illinois. ~ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78342846 United States05/14/2020 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Butchering a steer ain't that bad. For a bandsaw, find an old Craftsman and get fine toothed blade. Set up a fence to help give you the thickness you need. This will get you the steaks. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75136688 For hamburger you can find an old sausage grinder and fit a large pulley to it and a very small pulley on an old motor from a dryer. But watch out, the cast iron blades are easy to break. Nowadays I'd just buy the grinder off amazon and plug it in. There are ways around all this bullshit, we should have already been practicing this stuff. I was just about to say the same thing, all butchers use bandsaws to cut. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78342846 United States05/14/2020 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78342846 United States05/14/2020 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was happy as my supply, and my family's supplies are dwindling. After checking all butchers in a large radius I have to turn him down. The soonest I can get them butchered is late October. Quoting: ~Fire Watch~ $9.00/lb. for ground beef at my local butcher shop. Most pork producers are euthanizing all of their piglets. Fucked up times... Elaine, are you going to fuck them all? Oh this is Elaine... She can go fuck herself...   |
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User ID: 78857932  Canada05/14/2020 07:34 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This situation with the farmers and the packing houses is heartbreaking. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76140145 Something has to give. We, Americans, just can't let our meat supply rot. Maybe the National Guard can set up to house, feed these animals and set up some kind of packing house/butcher scenario. Or we could forget about the .03 percent death rate and go back to normal. True that.  "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
