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richwicks says

Really? What animals?

The Pornhub animals?

Ceffer says

richwicks says

Really? What animals?

The Pornhub animals?

I thought you were being serious. I had great uncles that did farming, but I was banned from ever seeing how the animals were dispatched.

richwicks says

I thought you were being serious.

Banish the thought.

My sister processes her own chickens and sells them locally. She has a mobile butcher who slaughters her cattle and lamb as well. I doubt the guy is a USDA approved employee.

We buy raw milk near our countryside property. For whatever reason, farm selling it needs a trillion permits. In my younger days in E Europe, everyone drank raw milk and no one got sick from that, no gubbermint supervision whatever.

Our neighbors (Mexican) do process their own meat but they dont sell to anyone they dont know well.

I've heard if you're small enough, you can fly under the radar. Guessing this guy shipping his meat across the US is what put him on the radar.

I emailed both senators last night, and made a small contribution. Healthy food from local farmers is the cornerstone that sustains a free society.

Nice little plug by Rebel News, who have also started a petition:


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Many years ago the chicken police tried to shut down our outdoor processing shed. At the same time, we had our chickens analyzed for exterior bacterial contamination at a certified laboratory. We sent samples from the supermarket at the same time so we’d know the comparisons. The government-sanctioned and USDA-licensed supermarket birds averaged 3,600 colony-forming units of bacteria per sample; ours average 133. Wouldn’t you think the food safety bureaucrats, upon seeing chicken 25 cleaner than their approved product would be interested in such a clean model? No. They wanted to put us out of business for having an open-air facility and no bathrooms or clothes-changing lockers. The government is not interested in truth. Giving bureaucrats more regulatory power does not change that axiom. Innovation is always sacrificed to preserve the status quo. Always. Always. Always.
https://paleofoundation.com/joel-salatin/

If you cook any meat properly, there's almost zero chance of getting sick. Even if there was something wrong with the animal. Heat kills stuff, hence why there are recommended temps. They're a little high in my opinion, but you'd have to be a moron to get sick if you're cooking it. We buy the "expired" sale meat all the time too. Just had two thick ass steak filets at $2 a piece. Didn't get sick and they were amazing. Made tacos with the leftovers. I'm not a big one sitting eater.

Restaurants are another thing. Many of those cooks had no training and just cook how they think it should be cooked in the mom and pop places. Chain restaurants are generally safe though, just bland. But at least you know what you're going to get.

Beating a dead horse here lately, but local farming is another reason to get out of cities. What you get a supermarkets is pure shit. Some small meat shops are decent. I don't think we have a meat CSA as Nutt mentions. Wish we did. We just have locals that raise and process them on their own. One has a small shop 2 miles from me. I like the CSA idea for meat, as we don't have land to raise animals. Veggies we have enough year round with proper preserving outside of the weird experimental recipe/meal.

We've left meat out for hours, and still eaten it days later without issue. Sometimes finish beef dishes a week or more after they were cooked.

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
Aug 19
This is shameful. What has our country come to? If you’re not part of the government-protected multinational milk/meat oligopoly, they don’t want you feeding families with healthy food from self-sustainable farms. The big guys don’t need a mob anymore - they have the government.

https://www.rebelnews.com/update_armed_feds_raid_miller_s_organic_farm

Armed Feds raid Miller's Organic Farm
The government says that Amos must cease operations because he doesn’t adhere to USDA standards.

... Amos Miller is an independent organic farmer in Bird-in-Hand, a remote Amish village in central Pennsylvania.

The farm has everything. Pasture-raised, grass-fed cattle to grass-fed raw dairy like yogurts, cheeses, and butters. The farm raises chickens, pigs, and even water buffalo and camels.

People all over the country signed up to be a part of Miller’s private food club for his holistically grown organic meat and dairy. But unfortunately, this is also the reason that the federal government and all its might, is targeting him.

The government says that Amos must cease operations because he doesn’t adhere to USDA standards. Amos argues that US government food regulations exist chiefly to strip small organic producers of their independence. They’re also financially intensive, making it so only the large producers are able to afford to stay in business.

By cutting the government out of his operations he’s effectively cutting out the middle man. The government siphons money from these farms through expensive “user fees.”

Amos and his customers argue that the USDA mandates food be processed and produced in ways that actually make the food less nutritious.

“The government is demanding I go through their slaughter houses and use toxic preservatives like artificial citric acid on my meat…my customers don’t want that…they want the whole organic deal,” Amos explained to Rebel.

What is the power structure that allows this kind of thing?

Exactly who oversees the FDA and can change their rules for the better?

OK, the FDA is part of Health and Human Services, headed by corrupt partisan Xavier Becerra.

HHS is administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The position is currently held by Xavier Becerra.

Senators need to remove Becerra pronto.

https://x.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1837532788683092395