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Our family took a quick road trip to pick up our quarter grass-finished steer.
\ud83d\udcb0Simply put, for every dollar you spend on grocery store meat, you support the larger supply chain of the many thousand farmers and their families across the U.S.
\u25aa\ufe0fBut that specific supply chain puts less money in the pockets of our (literal) local farmer.
\u25aa\ufe0fBut if we ONLY bought from our local farmer, then farmers in small communities would be left with excess animals that they couldn\u2019t sell. Over time, we would have fewer farmers and ranchers.
And that would ultimately mean less supply.
\ud83e\udd40And once you have less supply (with the same demand), you will see increasing meat prices. It\u2019s a lose lose situation.
\u26d1Our family happily buys both from the grocery store AND from our local farmers.
\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udf3eWe\u2019ve been going to the same raw goat\u2019s milk and egg farmer for 6 years. And while he\u2019s about to retire, I\u2019m grateful for our time and experience going monthly to the farm.
\ud83d\udc02We also reserve quarter steers. I never ask for discounts because I know it\u2019s hard labor. I\u2019ll never be a farmer and so I\u2019m EXTREMELY thankful for our wonderful neighbors that raise nutrient-dense food for my family.
\u2665\ufe0fWhen you feed my kids, you have a fan for life.
\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf3e@halokcattle is run by a veteran and they use a processor to package my meat in the size, count and cut the way I wanted. If you live in the Austin area, I recommend checking them out.
\ud83e\udd70I get giddy when I have a chest freezer full of meat. (my freezer is 7-8 cu ft. and comfortably stores a quarter steer).
\ud83c\udf1fAnd if you think grass-finished is pricey, we paid about $5\/lb. That included ribeyes, oxtail, knucklebones, and every other cut you can think of.
I\u2019m so simple that they turned a lot of the meat to ground beef for me.
\u2716\ufe0fI declined the liver and kidneys (risk of hypervitaminosis).
\ud83d\uded2We also went to our local grocery store and got spareribs on sale ($1.97\/lb) and NY Strips ($5.77\/lb).
\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc67\u200d\ud83d\udc66Never take your meat for granted. For every meat, there\u2019s a story of an animal that feeds a family.<\/p>\r\n
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