Butcher Honesty?

I can not imagine finding a ''premium grass fed beef'' in Minnesota at the end of one of the harshest winters on record! If I was not satisfied and wanted to complain, I would look to the grower. Good grass fed is usually butchered at a time when they are growing well on good fresh forage and laying down some fat cover.

Unfortunately this is not always true. The butcher we work with now is wonderful. But we drive six hundred miles to take our pigs to them each week.

Meanwhile, locally there are two closer butchers who have been in business for years that all the locals I've spoken with about them talk of how these butchers have cheated them. These two butchers get away with it because they have virtual monopolies.

Most people aren't willing to drive the long distances to get beyond them. Some are. Basically it comes down to those who take more animals to market are willing to drive further to get to the better butchers and skip over these local cheaters.

If you find a good butcher, cherish them.

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We have been very happy with our processor and believe we get the meat back that we send in.
We have used a couple and the only problem we have had at any was the way the smoking was handled.
Watched the Amish shop at the next town over they bring one carcass into the room at a time so chances are pretty good that whatever came in on a certain tag went out under that same tag.
Took 25 birds in to the local Hmong place last year because the wife was tired of skinless chicken. 24 were CornishX and 1 was a big special black. Looking at the carcasses I could pick out which one was not a CornishX. I believe 100% that we got our birds back.

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Deja Moo; The feeling I've heard this bull before.

Our proscesser take a marker , it has needles, covered in ink. He smacks each area of the hanging hog with it,marking it so when it goes to smokeing ect. it still has our number on the hide.

A small Mexican run butcher opened up around the corner of the SOs yard. They raise goats and fowl right there.
It would probably be super easy to get my actual meat back from there.
They are very small

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