Posted on 03/13/2024 11:19:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That’s what we do, a local farmer, few dozen cattle and we buy a whole cow at a time. We have to request the meat about 3 months out now. He’s gotten very busy
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You are so tough! You have my greatest admiration!
What's it like being all-knowing and all-powerful?
I’m pretty sure...dearly hope I am wrong....But I think we are screwed once again.
There is a reason that existing US law mandates that early all US Defense industry procurement be of American-made/American company origin. That already is skirted with microchips made in China (absolute suicidal stupidity).
Yet we have allowed the vast majority of our food to be sourced via corporations based outside our nation (including China - which is our sworn enemy).
WHY? For the same reason we have “allowed” the CCP to buy up hundreds of thousands of acres of US farmland and other property????
It is very hard to buy locally - even when a beef producer is nearby - as the small, local slaughterhouses have been closing down - and the remaining ones are booked out often 6 months +. Almost no-one has the tools or facilities to butcher their own beef. I’m maxed out in hanging a deer to process in my own back yard.
Chicken/poultry is doable.
Pigs CAN be, if you have the land and don’t mind the mess/smell.
Goats - almost identical to dressing/butchering deer.
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Where do cows come from?
The question, as it relates to modern farms, has little to do with the animals that are on them or what happens to them so much as it does with continued operation.
Its a matter of ownership and inputs, where the next ones come from and who is going to do it.
If every urbanite went and claimed his share of the animals and ate them, where does the next one come from?
Are you going to plant all that corn between the cracks in the sidewalk?
Do you have much experience with bulls or boars?
Cows
We’ll take it from the back room of the grocery store where its grown
Cows just roam around everywhere and take care of themselves?
Of course not,,,,We have to watch over them and treat them when needed....But yeah but we mostly let them graze in the summer,,,,just let them graze. This country I live in....cattle can get by on their own..The grass is some of the best grass in the world.
“If we need it we will just take it.
“From whom?”
Sorry if it came across the wrong way-
This is not an attack on the Ranchers and PRODUCERS.
The original post was about food security with the idea that we would starve with foreign ownership of processing plants.
Plants are fixed assets. In time of war, or mass starvation, any plant will be “appropriated” if required. Ford made Tanks, we had Ration Coupons, etc . . .
Other comments also noted that PRODUCERS should get together and establish NEW Facilities, like the CoOp owned structures of the old days. Let the Producers and other investors make some new production.
My comment was centered around the Political TROUGH Feeders.
There’s more to worry about a local POS Corrupt Elected Official selling us out, or robbing us blind than any ChiCom owned business.
Peace you you my friend.
“ Producers could do the same. There are enough that each would only have to invest small amounts to get processing plants started.”
Have their own collectives which they can use to improve pricing. Your collective brand goes on your meat.
This is the lowest Jan. 1 inventory since USDA’s 82.08 million estimate in 1951 (Figure 1). The calf crop is estimated at 33.6 million head, down 2% from last year and the smallest calf crop since 33.1 million in 1948.
Reduced head of cattle means less cattle to process. It will take two years for a replacement herd
This is the lowest Jan. 1 inventory since USDA’s 82.08 million estimate in 1951 (Figure 1). The calf crop is estimated at 33.6 million head, down 2% from last year and the smallest calf crop since 33.1 million in 1948.
Reduced head of cattle means less cattle to process. It will take two years for a replacement herd
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