The reason grocery stores are able to sell you meat at cheap prices is because that meat (pork, beef, chicken) come from feedlots.  They do not come from local farms nor are they fresh.  Most of the meat has to ride half way across the US before it reaches the grocery store to be cut up and placed on the shelf.  Do you know what is in the meat or how it has been raised.  Most health related illness can be brought on by the food you eat.  The saying is true you are what you eat.

Do not stop eating meat just because you don’t like the way it is handled, be willing to pay your local farmer to raise high quality meat for the local consumers to eat.  Yes it does cost more to eat local and eat fresh, just like anything else when you mass produce it, that cuts down on cost.  I really don’t want my food mass produced.  I want to know it is nutrient dense and does my body good.

Animals in feedlots are under a lot of stress can you image how that effects the meat that you are eating.  For more information read on.  We hand raise our animals, they are given a diet of grains, vitamins and minerals and free choice grass and hay.