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My neighbor goes to D.C. every weekend to sell eggs (organic). He charges 12 dollars a dozen , he sells all of them in 1 hr. , 200 dozen.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I charge 10 bucks. Usually make about 3k after expenses. 12 k a month isn't bad idk.
DeleteHey, Ray Wallace! Want to buy some chickens?????
ReplyDeleteOnly eighteen bucks each! ON SALE NOW!!!!
No I don't think it's organic. As soon as the organic craze started taking a noticeable bite out of market shares, big agribusiness had the government water down the definition of organic.
ReplyDeleteThe best practice is To Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
and
From Farm To Table
Who can do this. I work 66 hrs a week just to keep family going. Am I suppose to knock on random farmers doors. If you haven't noticed most aren't friendly.
DeleteI do like organic. But $17.00 for a chicken is getting way out of my range.
ReplyDeleteUnless you're willing to tolerate the Perdue's, Tyson's, Mountaire's, and Allen's industrial practices, be prepared to start paying these kind of prices - even to the local farmer growing his own....
ReplyDeleteThe industrial machinery allows for lower prices due to the reduction in operational and processing costs...handmade stuff is just plain more expensive.
what is more funny is how you all people think when they put a label on a chicken and call it organic you believe them... Nothing is organic sold on the market...
ReplyDeleteUnless you go to a mom and pop shop which are none, then you are not getting organic... If you bothered to research it, and I now you didn't and won't, They use wording and trickery to make it seem organic, like because the chicken ate modified grass it is organic because they will say it ate grass...
Nothing is organic about processed foods... and if you believe that, then you believe eating a tub of lard is healthy...
Avian influenza has wiped out much of the chicken/turkey supply.
ReplyDeleteJust wait till Thanksgiving.
Big deal, as many things in life, you get what you pay for and you are what you eat. I know a lot of people who blow $15 or more a day on Starbucks mocha cocha crap.
ReplyDeleteSo true. I hate that place
Delete"Organic" vegetables, fine. But I don't buy "organic" meat, nor kosher or halal, due to inhumane practices.
ReplyDeleteIf a cow on an "organic" farm gets sick, or a bad cut on it's leg, it is not treated with antibiotics that would cure it. Instead, it is either allowed to suffer without effective treatment in hopes it will recover on its own, or immediately slaughtered so it can still sold as "organic"...a much higher price.
I buy fresh organic farm to table chickens for 14 dollars a piece from a local supplier. Ground beef is 6 bucks a pound and sirloin is 9 bucks a pound. All of my money stays in Salisbury. All of these animals are raised humainly. Factory farms are gross. Sending your money out of your local economy is selfish and counter productive. Now don't get me wrong I understand I am going to eat things along the way that are factory farmed when I am out and about, but every dollar I spend locally on doing things the way they should be done is another step in the right direction for our local economy and my consciousness.
DeleteThat's why I went plant based - the day I pay for that kind of crap - grow your own, shoot your own! I'm not against meat eaters but anyone who pays that is out of their mind. Organic vegetables at the local farm markets!
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ReplyDeleteUnless you're willing to tolerate the Perdue's, Tyson's, Mountaire's, and Allen's industrial practices, be prepared to start paying these kind of prices - even to the local farmer growing his own....
The industrial machinery allows for lower prices due to the reduction in operational and processing costs...handmade stuff is just plain more expensive.
July 30, 2015 at 7:55 AM"
This is because the companies you have mentioned are the ones behind all the regulations. They don't want competition so they've made it nearly impossible for anyone else to open a processing plant able to handle large quantities. The best thing that could happen to chicken in general and everyone who is employed in the business is to have 2 or 3 independent processing plants open in the area. The entire local economy would soar. These companies are a top reason for the area's blight. Most people that work for them can't even afford to buy a home which makes and keeps home prices low.
Perdue's plant in Showell is for sale. One of the requirements for a prospective new buyer is that the buildings are to be torn down. I imagine they don't want someone coming in, opening it back up and luring growers away from them.
9:56-You are on the internet aren't you? It would take you all of a minute to find the different places locally that sell. One is Greenbranch farms just outside of Sby.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind paying $20 for a chicken. We don't need to be eating all that meat anyway and I can get 3 or 4 meals out of one chicken since there are only 2 of us.
ReplyDeleteYou can bake it and eat some.
Then make some chicken salad and a pot pie.
Then boil the carcass and use the stock for vegetable soup.
I've got three big fat young roosters for a bargain price of $10 each then, and I'll even throw in a little single serving size bantam rooster free. $20 for a chicken? Ouch.
DeleteThe EPA was created by Nixon. It was created at the urging of Big Business as a way around the anti trust laws.
ReplyDeleteThey figured with the EPA they could regulate the competition right out of business and prevent others from opening.
ReplyDeleteAll food is organic....
or·gan·ic
ôrˈɡanik/
adjective
adjective: organic
1.
of, relating to, or derived from living matter.
"organic soils"
synonyms: living, live, animate, biological, biotic
"organic matter"
CHEMISTRY
of, relating to, or denoting compounds containing carbon (other than simple binary compounds and salts) and chiefly or ultimately of biological origin.
(of food or farming methods) produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents.
synonyms: pesticide-free, additive-free, natural
"organic vegetables"
2.
PHYSIOLOGY
of or relating to a bodily organ or organs.
MEDICINE
(of a disease) affecting the structure of an organ.
3.
denoting a relation between elements of something such that they fit together harmoniously as necessary parts of a whole.
"the organic unity of the integral work of art"
synonyms: structured, organized, coherent, integrated, coordinated, ordered, harmonious
"a society is an organic whole"
characterized by continuous or natural development.
"companies expand as much by acquisition as by organic growth"
You have to pay extra for the marketing hype. People don't pay attention to the lack of oversight in the organic/non GMO farms. Total sham job.
ReplyDeleteI'll pay that to ensure my little girls don't have developed breasts by 11 years old!
ReplyDeleteWaste of money.
DeleteAmerican raised chicken does not use growth hormones, and hasn't for years.
Soy has been proven to contain a form of estrogen...so lay off the fake meat substitutes made from soy...
I buy organic but I am much more particular now. I purchased squash at the local organic market and the squash on the bottom of the basket were next to rotten the next day. Buyer beware.
ReplyDeleteAs for wounds on animals honey will do the trick. Natures best antibiotic.
ReplyDeleteRide by perdues processing plant on rt 50 tomorrow at 12 pm eating a fried breast with the window down i bet your days of eating fowl along with breathing it will end soon.
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