RE: Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health
October 30, 2015 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2015 at 11:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 30, 2015 at 11:00 am)Losty Wrote: I honestly don't know a lot about this. The meat I buy isn't usually prepackaged. And the guy just writes the name and weight and date on it with a marker after he wraps it the plastic over it. Am I naively fooling myself into believing that the family owned butcher shop I like to frequent is healthier? I honestly don't know.
I get what you mean though. Unhealthy is always cheaper and more convenient and more available. It's also more popular and I struggle with that because I don't want my kids to be those weird kids who've never had pizza roles or koolaid. But I also don't want to give my kids pizza rolls or koolaid. The koolaid thing is something I will not bend on. I sometimes let my kids have unhealthy junk to eat though I try to avoid it as much as possible. But they have never had koolaid. The only pop they've had was Sprite (and that's just the older two as Miss P wasn't born yet) and I glared at my mother the entire time they were drinking it. My kids drink a lot of water and I have a juicer and a blender so they get watered down fruit juice and smoothies sometimes. I'm not crazy honestly. I blame the pediatrician office. They have posters of babies with rotted out teeth. It's traumatizing.
Going to a family owned butcher won't ensure that you get a better product, but it's likely that you can (with caveats...they still get their product from the same production apparatus). Trouble is, we don't get our meat from butchers...and frankly, we can't. Butchers went out of business because we the people couldn't afford them. The solution to our problems cannot be a failed business model. I have a favorite butcher as well..the meat is good, the rest of the shit he has is the same shit the kroger has - there's just no getting around it, that's where the money's at. I have a special circumstance though. I live in the bluegrass. We have horses and cattle out the wazzoo..so for me, going to the butcher, is having my neighbor drop off the cow I bought when it's rdy to rock. This isn;t something that the majority of us can do, or would be willing to do.
*you just reminded me...I need to call his ass about a big fuckin turkey.
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