Where do you buy your meat?

armywife7205

After watching Food. Inc I am concerned about our what we are eating even more. What store/place are you buying your meat?

TIA 

humynone

PCC (local natural foods chain) or my organics delivery box order... grassfed, local, organic meat is roughly $5-7 a pound. But we don't eat a ton of meat, so I don't mind splurging for good stuff.

georgia_peachy

We buy our meat through a local CSA/co-op.  You might look for one in your area at www.localharvest.org.  We started buying it for concerns w/ antibiotics/steroids/hormones but now we've found the taste so superior we can't go back to the "bad" meat even if we wanted to do so.

SarahMay77

We use venison in place of beef for most dishes, and my H shot & butchered his own deer.  For other meats, we try to buy from a small local deli who gets most of their products from local farmers.

We fail at chicken.  We still buy that from the supermarket.  I feel bad about it.

nikll34

We purchased 1/8th of a local organically grown cow. So we have a ton in storage and will last use quite awhile since I don't eat cow meat that much.

Poonico

My DH hunts deer and turkey, so we get a almost all of our meat from that.  I buy some chicken, though I know I shouldn't.  When we have more land, I hope to raise our own.

goodgalpal

I buy grass fed ground beef, organic free range whole chicken, bison, and certified humanely raised pork (bacon and ham) from Whole Foods.

Sometimes I get "Smart Chicken" from Meijer.

I would much prefer to get a local organic farm to source our meats, but I can't seem to find anything.  

Dressage99

We buy our beef from my husband's boss who raises cows in his back yard. They are grass fed and hormone free. Very yummy and healthy. And he gives us a great deal!

Pork, Chicken, and other meats and fish come from the store. I buy organic when its on sale. But if not I buy regular. Its just so expensive to buy the organic meats, I can't budget it in.

My plan this summer is to find a local farm that sells organic chicken meat. We eat chicken a lot, so I think it will be worth it.

I have chickens for eggs. The city I live in does not allow residents to raise chickens for meat, so they are egg layers only.

whit1827

We (almost always) use venison, elk, mountain goat and moose in place of beef.  We shoot and butcher this ourselves, or get it from family/friends who shot and butchered it themselves.  We also catch, clean and filet all of our own fish (salmon, halibut, ling cod).  We very, very rarely eat pork, and eat chicken about once a week.  Chicken we buy organic, hormone free from the grocery store.  When we have the space we intend on raising our own chickens.