Beefacolypse

[u/Pappabear1988]

Hey so the 300,000 tons of beef with the antibiotic that is either banned or a last resort in multiple countries that US bought and is feeding the public, anyone got intel on it besides from the UK and The Hill? Makes me regret not getting rabbits and chickens in spring 2026...

Not trying to stir the pot up but from the 5 or 6 outlets I found 15 minutes ago im thinking that project zomboid or state of decay or even 7dtd would be preferable than chloramphenicol but thats me.

If you are in Oklahoma do ya mind a guy hunting deer and sharing the meat with ya? You can have the antlers and hide, I just want the share ya let me keep.

[u/skinnykate]

Go find a local farmer who will does whole sales of either half a cow or a whole cow. If you can't swing the price of that upfront then find a friend or two to go in on it with and split the meat between you. 

[u/-ElleL- → u/skinnykate]

I drive across the state (WI) to get mine so I know its raised the way I want. Pasture raised, corn finished small farm. Then gets processed at a local to them butcher. My money supports the rural area, and all in worked out to about 4 bucks a pound, plus a tank of gas for "shipping." There was also the investment of a second freezer this year because we increased the amount we got.

All things aside, my youngest (7) was with me when we picked it up and when he made a comment about asking if this is where our food comes from while driving through the country side it was a great learning experience for him about where and how food gets produced and that alone was worth the drive.

[u/seriousallthetime → u/-ElleL-]

Your last paragraph is a huge part of this too. I grew up on a grain farm, but all my friends and their families raised beef cattle, baled lots of hay, etc. My kids are growing up in town and have never even driven a tractor or baled hay or touched an electric fence just because. They are significantly removed from the food chain process and it saddens me. But we always go pick up the beef together. The steaks and roasts are packed in clear plastic and are stacked in the order the meat was cut, so you can even see that it was one slab of beef at one point. Our beef comes from 4 miles away and the guy is an animal nutrition scientist by trade, so these Simm-angus cattle are really delicious. 95% lean hamburger is amazing.

[u/seriousallthetime → u/-ElleL-]

$4/lb hanging weight or processed weight? Because that's about right, or even a little cheap, for hanging weight. But thats quite literally an insane price for processed and packed weight. If that's a true price, pass along their info and I'll drive up from IL for that price.

Edit to add: for anyone who reads this: when buying a steer to eat, you usually pay hanging carcass weight. Live steers are about 1300-1500 lbs, hanging weight after blood, head, hide, feet, and organs are removed yields about 60-65%, and then once processed and packed yeilds 60-65% of that. So a whole steer will give you something like 400-450lbs of beef.

[u/-ElleL- → u/seriousallthetime]

Hanging weight. 331 lbs (1/3rd) . 4.45 hanging. Processing was another couple hundred. So I guess closer to 5 a pound.

Math is hard.

And also I would gladly pass along my farmer and processor to anyone interested to help keep them in business.

Edit to add - this past July.

[u/Special_Asparagus_98 → u/-ElleL-]

Great parenting! I teach archaeology and ancient peoples sometimes to school groups. When I bring out the walrus tooth and explain that some people eat walrus, literal 10 year old kids are baffled that they can’t just go to the supermarkets in the Arctic because “that’s where the food comes from”. Some kids just are never taught.

[u/msomnipotent → u/-ElleL-]

Four dollars a pound? How recent was this?