On top of the added chemicals and hormones, the US has far fewer inspectors now. Not accepting beef and chicken after DOdGEy’s slash and burn cuts seems like a sensible reaction.
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Had another thought. Grain fed beef and grass fed beef taste quite different. Tastes would play a part. I was born and raised in the US, and then moved to Britain and the Australia. Grass fed beef is much tastier. As for chicken, Australian chooks have no hormones or steroids.
apr 3, 2025, 7:02 am • 66 3 • view
I'd try some chook, but I don't care for the chicken. Beef is about who raised it, rotating to fields/pasture does do a lot of good. I will happily eat some wild deer since I did a lot as a kid and cleaner meat is tastier.
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One of my uncles was a deer hunter. We’d occasionally get some, especially pemmican.
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I grew up on/near a reservation and it was always deer season. My dad and grandpa hunted and trapped a lot and a lot of family friends got to hunt out of season so we always had plenty of meat and fresh veg. Where I live people won't even go get their 1-2 a year and it's crazy to me to not.
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Deer largely off the menu now due to CWD prions in the meat (unlike mad cow disease it’s not just in the spinal column, brain etc). A few species of deer are resistant though www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Mother Earth is seriously pissed with us and she isn’t going to take it any more.
apr 3, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
Don't blame, but dang this is a mean way to punish a small bit of people. I'd rather see liquifaction swallowing cars.
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That's wildly more depressing than just knowing I'm not going to have deer chili anymore. Thanks.
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Some types of deer are safe(ish).
apr 3, 2025, 8:49 am • 1 0 • view
Looked it up and the common ones here are iffy. Probably best to avoid a maybe on scary potential.
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I raised broiler chickens for 40 years. They don’t have hormones or steroids, other than the ones their own bodies naturally produce. It’s been illegal to add hormones to chicken since the 1950’s.
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From what I’ve read, that depends on the US state, though that was about a decade ago. Thanks for the information. 🙂
apr 3, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view
For sure this is correct. My husband used to grind his teeth when Sanderson Farms would advertise “no added hormones!”, because it was deceptive. We grew for a smaller integrator. Over the years we grew antibiotic free birds too. Whatever the contract called for.
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And the hormone implants in cattle are minuscule. The difference between a treated and untreated beef is measured in nanograms per ounce. Nanograms are microscopically small. 1 mg is 5 million nanograms.
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Not to mention many of their abattoirs and meat packing plants appear to be employing ACTUAL children. Including overnight shifts?!?
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This time next year... Q: Wow, there's so much beef in the stores now that Trump abolished the Department of Agriculture, and it's so cheap! What changed? A: They stopped adding it to the hamburgers.
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