How Safe is Our Meat?

February 18, 2008

Processing of Game is often A Family affair. Black bear being dressed and skinned

Many of the local and national news shows led with the story of the largest meat recall in the history of the US. The video that is getting shown was report to be shot by someone within the HSUS that certainly in my opinion puts up a red flag. The HSUS certainly would not hesitate to use underhanded tactics or do questionable things to get this tape. Make no mistake folks their agenda is not to see that your little Billy and Sally have a safe cheeseburger for lunch tomorrow at school but rather to shut down much of our agricultural industries. We’ll have to wait and see if the accusations against this company stand up to scrutiny and the investigations that are to come.

No matter what happens there is no reason that you should fear meat despite the issues of cloning, mad cow disease, antibiotics & hormones, and the safe handling of meat in the supply chain. You can avoid many of these by harvesting you own naturally fed, organic, free range game with a simple hunting license and a little elbow grease. I like many of you supply meat that I saw alive and moving so I can safely assume it is pretty healthy, and I care for that meat from the time it hits the ground till it hits the plate. I love to hunt and one of the great things is that I know a lot more about the meat on my grill then the folks that go to the best butcher shop in town to buy theirs.

This day it is popular to be green and I bet I use less energy to get my deer or bear from the field and to the table then the average burger joint. So you want to be green go kill ya a deer and put it up then you’ll know your meat is safe.