Although we love smoked meats, our time in the summer is very limited, so we take shortcuts. If you have …
Tag: Meat
Meat Processors: Federal, State and Custom
A customer gives us some money, we give the customer some bacon. Sounds good, no? Mmmmmm. Bacon. If only it …
Farm Paperwork 2
I got a big manilla envelope in the mail today from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Turns out they sent …
Green Cows
This was posted today over at the blog “What If?” and while interesting in it’s own geeky way, I though …
NASCAR Chickens vs. Heritage Breeds – Butchering Day
We finally got all the broilers slaughtered, processed and delivered. We only a little over 50 broilers this year, and …
Consumer Reports – Meat on Drugs
Looks like Consumer Reports is the latest organization to throw its weight behind the antibiotic-free meat. Full story here. In …
Getting to the bottom of Greenhouse Gasses: Part 2
If you didn’t catch Part I, you might want to go get caught up. Don’t worry, I’ll just wait here. …
Goodbye Pink Slime, Hello Arsenic.
Wow did the pink slime story ever blow up or what? The story circulated for several weeks on farm and …
Antibiotics in animal feed: Part of the problem.
It’s nice to be right every once in a while. Unfortunately, I’d rather not be right about this: “MRSA appears …