Yup. For years my family and I had our own cows for beef. And I never paid attention to the beef aisle in the grocery store because we never went to that section. Then in 2015 my dad retired from cows and we all had to start buying store beef. First it grossed me out how red it was, I knew that’s not how ground beef was supposed to look. And it tasted awful. We did that for maybe a year, and it was just so gross that our family agreed to buy a cow from a neighbor and have it butchered. Beef tastes a lot better now in our household

Know your farmer, Know your food

I butcher my own chickens, quail, goats, lambs, and pigs. Grow most of my own vegetables. Food truely does not look like what you buy in the store. Tomatoes are almost never perfect, but damn, even the poor ones they taste way better than anything you get at the store!

I’m more worried about the plastic wrap and styrofoam it sits on than the nitrogen that’s pumped into the packaging.

I know exactly where my food comes from. I live in a farming community We have a local butchery All meat from the butchery comes from the community Problem solved

@jonny-b4954

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, but that's simply not realistic or doable for our entire population. Not at this point. Not with the economy we've built.

@Tmhjr_Baskar

15 күн бұрын

@@jonny-b4954 well, there's a price to be paid for going to live in the city. What city folk can do is what they can to ensure safe food practices. Plant gardens on roofs, have coops on roofs, etc. and if the local govt prohibits.such actions as community gardens or rooftop gardens/aviaries, then do something about it. Living in a city is no excuse for completely unhealthy eating practices. Have a beautification system in place? Expand on it. Nature is beautiful in its own way. Even slaughtering and animal has its purpose. Not out of enjoyment or pleasure, but as a food source. Waste not, want not. Not into eating meat? **Points to a garden** Should expand people's eating habits, but at the same time don't put people down on what they choose or can't eat. Some are happy with being vegans, vegetarians, or meat eaters. Moderation is key. No one way of eating is absolute. It should be people who change the world, not government.

When I started hunting with my husband I was so shocked at how bright my meat looked compared to grocery store meat. When I found out how old the meat actually is… we substitute MOST of our beef for venison that we raise now. Absolutely gross that poison is used to color the grocery meat.

My father's side of the family have a cattle ranch that has been running over 100 years in California and it's the best meat, my grandpa would make sure the family all had lots of beef to eat year round so we didn't have to buy it. He would also provide all the meat for events too like weddings, reunions, cattle branding and all kinds of stuff, that was his way of showing he cares.

@Nameentered

17 күн бұрын

And the meat was red

@advi8143

17 күн бұрын

What a blessing!

@laridion7901

17 күн бұрын

That's so interesting! I did a semester of college with a girl who married a cattle rancher in C.A.! 😂

@user-km4lx9gr4f

15 күн бұрын

That's Awesome your grandpa sounds like a great guy! Jack from Iowa USA

This is NOT for show. Its called 'Modified Air Packaging', and to keep the food from going bad longer. The redness is a byproduct, NOT the purpose. Nitrogen is the primary component. Nitrogen is an inert, harmless gas.

@michaelmontgomery727

17 күн бұрын

It is for expectations and presentation too.

🤬 I will never be able to trust sprouts again.

"Artificial" nitrogen hold up ☝

I love living in a small town because of this and why I don’t buy meat or produce at Walmart. At our grocery stores (the two we have) the meat is local and the produce is fresh

Yes. Buy from a local farmer!

Just buy everything cheap as you can get. All that fancy stuff is the same with nicer packaging, so you're paying for the wrapping paper basically.

My husband and i own a farm.. we have crop and livestock.. we know what our animals eat and we have trusted processors to butcher our meat. I feel really blessed.

Also....if it's super red, the animal was stressed before slaughter 😢

Our fresh meat we buy in Ireland is bright red and we buy it from the butchers. Good Irish grass fed cows happy in the green fields for 9 months a year or more. Plus in the EU additives are not allowed by law in fresh meat!! This is mad!!😮

Only by local

My God Alex is going to make some guy a lucky ass husband someday

You have those yellers who scream that everybody needs to go vegan. While.....we indeed need to know how meat is sold and the multiple ways of conserving meat.

The meat that is brown has been repackage after its expiration date. The meat that is red has been gassed. The fish dosen't smell fishy, because it's been rinsed in a chlorine and water bath. The pre marinated meat is the meat that is old and didn't sell. It's fine.

We get organic grass fed beef right from the butcher. We pick it out and they cut it up for us,

They add carbon monoxide to stop the blood from oxidizing (to put it in simple terms) Doesn’t really hurt anything as far as I know

Well, it is between the bright red packet or the grey one... 😢

Here's a crazy thought: regulate industry. It's not just meat that's fucked in the USA. It's all of our food. Less government isn't an end all be all.

That’s why i raise my own beef and pork, along with most veggies, can’t trust the food industry

I mean, they're not "artificial" gases. Technically.

Okay but is good rachers actually affordable? I cant dish out that much

I can’t cook woolies or coles mince meat. (I’m an Aussie). It gives of this smell that made me puke. I bought Aldi mince because I simply couldn’t afford mince meat from the butcher. It was a lot better. BUT.. I now only buy from my local farmers and only from the butcher, ALDI in desperate situations.

Not true 👎 there are still stores that cut the meat in the store. There is nothing added to that meat

Um… no! My friend raises cattle completely natural. They process it themselves. No one else touches it. They give some to me! The shits red until you cook it and it’s still red in the center after bc smart people don’t cook it all the way!

Venison is like almost black

Let me clarify a little bit. The gas is very very small amount and is carbon monoxide CO. As soon you open the packaging what was there is not anymore. And when cooked, well that's that. The CO preserves myoglobin pigment in the meat. You can Google more. Some of my in-laws are ranchers.

Could that be whats causing so much autism bc autism was not like 1 in every 3 or something like that

I LOVE Lillie's videos. I watch her all the time for motivation. 😁

@Nameentered

17 күн бұрын

Well don't believe everything she says. Want to know the real reason why meat at a grocery store is usually more red than at a butchers? It's because at a butchers it's simply fresher. Meat turns more red the longer it is exposed to the atmosphere. It's from the nitrogen in the atmosphere. Our atmosphere contains 78% nitrogen. That's why when you butcher a freshly killed/skinned animal the meat is more blue and pale. Because it hasn't been exposed to the nitrogen or oxygen yet. The longer it's dead the redder it gets. It is completely natural for your meat to turn red. Go watch any butcher video on the internet and they will say the same thing. Seriously, gondo some research. Just because you like someone and they share the same views and beliefs as you doesn't mean you should take everything they say as the truth. I've gotten freshly butchered hamburg and steak from the butchers and it looked and tasted no different than from a grocery store. I even got to pick the pieces I wanted right off the cows body.

Why i hunt an grow my food. Good luck sheep

Anyone order from Butcher Box?

let’s be real. if you ain’t growing your own food, or at least going to farmers markets and taking your own animals to the slaughterhouse or at least going to the slaughterhouse and buying their shit, then you’re being juped anyways. i wouldn’t trust every slaughterhouse either. and not every single farmer is honest. but if you truly want to know where the majority of your food is coming from then you will have to take it in your own hands.

I’m only buying an unpackaged steak from a butcher if it’s red… they definitely should be red even if they’re unpackaged

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I hate this bc I always choose the reddest meat 😭 lesson learned.

@Nameentered

17 күн бұрын

Good. Want to know why your meat is red? It comes from the gases/chemicals in the atmosphere. Primarily nitrogen. Earth's atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. It is completely natural for your meat to be red. When you first skin an animal it looks a little more bluish and pale. That's only because it was hidden from the gases/chemicals of the atmosphere. Don't listen to these crazy KZread shorts. Go do some real research. Red meat, especially beef, is completely normal. Go watch any butchering video and you will see this to be true. Watch any person make their own hamburg and you will see it is red.

@nelsonpaul9088

17 күн бұрын

Nitrogen gas makes up 70% of the air you breathe. Nitrogen prevents oxidation and microbial fermentation due to oxygen exposure. Red meat is supposed to be red.

@gagewesterhouse9558

17 күн бұрын

It's literally just nitrogen. About 71% of the air you breathe is nitrogen. There's nothing harmful at all about it.