Where does Costco meat come from ? https://www.aisleofshame.com/where-does-costco-meat-come-from/
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do americans even realise how garbage their meat is?
No, they don't. Part of it is the media doesn't report on it, but part of it is it's illegal to take photos or get video from inside of slaughterhouses. Also, a lot of people don't want to know, because it would be inconvenient. They like the taste of meat, and they don't want to quit eating it.
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the mass produced, factory butchered and packaged shit that might even be sent overseas for processing and come back.. yea, that shit can be pretty bad.. especially the 'tubes' of unknown origins.
the stuff raised out on the farm (sis' parents used to raise their own, 2 head at a time), or the neighbor's farm (where we all get it from now)? not the same product. not.even.close.
How much of that goes to Costco, though?
Small farms sell to livestock auctions.
Those tend to have buyers from large meat processing plants.
That meat is then sold as premium grade, usually steak and roast cuts.
The rest is then used for ground meat, or pet feed.
Unless it's chicken. Then everyone is in the same leaky boat. Seriously, chicken is nasty. Every single country in the world has switched to fast growing chicks, that need to be slaughtered long before adulthood because they get too big to survive on their own.
Then they're too young to really develop flavor, so the processed meat has to be plumped further with injections of salted chicken broth.
Well that's depressing.
The farm is only part of it. Whether they were raised on a factory farm or your neighbor's farm, they all go to the same slaughterhouse. Unless you know farmers who do their own slaughtering, which I highly doubt.
That isn't necessarily better, you have higher rates of accidental additions if you don't operate the saws perfectly at diy small scale.
do you realize how dumb you sound?
America has the greatest, highest quality meat available.
is it dumber than that statement?
So garbage that international demand makes us the 4th biggest exporter of beef. Get over yourself.
lmao. doesnt make your meat good.
4th place is 3rd loser.
Second biggest beef producer (just a hair behind Brazil), but only fourth biggest exporter. Both of which are natural consequences of just being a large landmass.
Most US produced beef is banned in countries with actual food standards due to the use of artificial growth hormones.
If you cared to investigate the details of those growth hormones instead of parroting EU-centric fear campaigns you would see that there's no actual evidence that the minuscule remnants of hormones, nanograms per portion, are harmful. There were some unfounded claims in the 70s and 80s that made headlines and whipped the public into a panic which gave European governments a decent foundation to enact win-win protectionist trade policies. (The EU tends toward "prove it's safe" rather than "prove it's not", which is fine but becomes annoying when people then talk shit about stuff like the US banning the import of unpasteurized young cheese for legitimate health reasons.)
Until very recently the US had some of the best food safety records in the world, though admittedly a less impressive history of animal wellness and humane treatment.