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Originally Posted by Mike Muth
On Feb 13, 1:38*am, "Kent" wrote:
As we all know, beef prices have risen to the moon in the past couple of
years. *Prices were up 20% in 2011, and there is a projected 9% price rise
this year. There is a drought in texas, as severe as anything since 1935.
Look at the following article from the Wall Street Journal just published..
I've been think about tofu for some time.
I get my beef and pork from the Amish or from friends here locally.
Prices are going up, but much less than on the commodities markets.
Buy from local sources, whenever you can. You'll generally have lower
prices and will often get better quality.
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Me, too. The quicker you learn to buy clean local stuff, the quicker you'll get clean meat, and better tasting meat. The beef I buy from a local farmer comes from animals that graze (rotationally) and taste like heaven. Amish chickens that don't have "10% solution added", pork from a farmer that has the flavor of pork that seems lacking at the food stores that buy crap.
Then again, I cook to make the meat/fat flavor things like veggies, rice, lentils. yeah, I'll make steaks now and again; but a great pot roast is heaven, too. that and the fat you reserve from good meats is of higher quality, as are the bones. I can buy half a beef for $2.50/lb. butchered. yes, that means bone and such. That bones makes broth that is unreal. I've also found the beauty of cooking with marrow. Oh my goodness!!