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Actually I will not be eating any cloned beef, lamb, hogs, or chickens as I am one of the very few that I know that still buy their meat on the hoof when they are old enough to sell and I get my chickens from the same dude I get my eggs from as needed. Never been frozen, no antibiotics and all with very large group cages to scratch in and live like a proper chicken. Actually most are amazed when they see my raw chickens and see how orange they are (mostly corn diet, though eek they could be eating cloned corn).
Each year I purchase a steer, two hogs, and a lamb in advance and have the farmer raise them. Not only is this a much cheaper route I know where my food came from, whats been injected in it or what the results of any vet visits were, and what they have been eating. Plus I am not cheating myself as the butcher I have will gladly butcher and package all the meat as I want it and even dry age any portions of the beef I want as well.
Now I could just buy them when they are ready to go to the butcher but that often costs more as you are either competing with other buyers or its at some county fair and the auctions go way to high per pound to reward the kid farmers.
Guess what I am saying is you can live with buy it now convenience and concern yourself with FDA rules in regards to hormones, cloning, and all of that which I really do not see as an issue aside from the overuse of antibiotics. Then of course you have the option of buying meat as I do from someone you know and know more about your food than most ever would consider.
I also buy a few local cheeses but not all of them from local producers, one farm makes a great variety of goats milk cheese and another farmer has some outstanding buffalo mozzarella that is almost to die for along with the best ricotta I have ever had. I occasionally also get some cream and milk from them but in reality that is just to out of the way to do that full time so I only pick that up when I am buying some cheeses and the rest of the time it comes from the grocery store. Also there is another farmer who is starting to specialize in Cheddars but is not fully ready yet, I hope to give him a try come spring.
Along with the assorted seasonal vegetable growers around here and the recent paranoia about the food supply I really think their could be a good business in a food order/delivery business with all this stuff. However with the current economy and the fact that people are actually ok buying food from wal mart I am not sure if I would ever invest in such an activity.
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