Dave Bugg > wrote:

>Dee.Dee wrote:

>> Do you mean that most of the meat that is sold at WF (I realize that
>> you don't KNOW that) has been cryovac'd? I'm trying to figure out
>> why you say that.

>Unless they take delivery of fresh whole hogs and have their own in-house
>butcher shop within the meat department, then I would expect that is the
>case. Cryovac is the standard method of packaging from the packing houses to
>the distributors to the retailers.

WF's position is its meat is not commercial industrial grade meat.

Whether that means it's less likely to have been cyrovac'ed, I'm
not sure. They tend not to say exactly where it comes from.
Unlike Dee's experience the WF's around here do not sell Niman, last
I checked.

Steve