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Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows
(newrepublic.com)
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Maybe skip beef for a while unless you know the origin.
If you can get as much meat as you're able to from a local butcher.
Befriend the people at that butcher shop. Have actual conversations with them, ask their advice on things, even if you don't think you need it.
The guy that likes you isn't going to sell you questionable meat. If he's any good he's not even buying questionable meat. You might even get discount locally sourced eggs there too.
It occurs to me that some venture capital firms have tried to corporatize and boutiquify butcher shops with expensive, "artisanal" offerings.
Your local butcher probably isn't wasting money on billboard and TV spots. Parking lot will be full every Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Case will be full and somebody will be actively cutting something up in the back, which will almost certainly be mostly visible.
We've got a butcher's shop in my country that doubles as a restaurant and all the meat comes from their own farm not too far from the city. Best meat I've had.
The US has like 300x more population and a huge thing for beef in particular. Bound to have tons of places like that if you know where to look, or so I'd hope.
I also have a quality butcher in ly neighborhood. He wins awards with his sausages, and has his own animals in fields with various farmers he knows.
Most people just get the cheapest meat at the supermarket, though.
Very much depends on where you live. There's my favorite one, the one I go to for a specific sausage, and two corporate nonsense ones within about 10 minutes of my house.
Where my in-laws live, a city comparable in size to where I live, there are none.