Do as I do. Find a rancher who raises beef. Buy from him. Find a farmer who raises pigs, buy from him. Raise and can your own vegetables or buy from someone who does. Simple actually. I haven’t bought meat in a grocery for many, many moons. I have enough room that I keep 20 laying chickens for eggs and once or twice a year I buy 25 day old chicks from a chicken hatchery and have them mailed to me to raise 8 weeks for meat.
The meat is cheaper when you buy from the farmer/rancher you just have to have a freezer or two. Plus, you should consider hunting. Fresh venison, elk, moose and even bear are very tasty and you don’t have to worry about some China toxin hiding in the meat.
City girl here. I didn’t know you could mail chicks.
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