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Specific Issues: Cuts, Fat, and Mislabeled Products

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FIRED My BUTCHER! What a JERK! You Won't believe What Happened!

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The farmer describes numerous quality issues with the butchered meat he received. He notes that premium cuts like ribeyes were often packaged with one very large steak and one tiny one, or with an excessively thick fat cap (up to two inches) that customers wouldn't tolerate paying for at $36 per pound. He also found gristle in New York strip steaks, indicating poor trimming. A key complaint was that many cuts were improperly labeled, with sirloin steaks being labeled as ribeyes, and even beef tips being labeled as beef heart. He emphasizes the importance of proper cutting and labeling for grass-fed beef, which requires butchering at peak grass season to avoid a 'hay' taste.

Goal: Illustrate the specific quality control failures and misrepresentation of meat cuts.

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  • Packaged Beef Cuts Stoney Ridge Farm

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so that when my customers received it, they knew they were getting quality beef from me, from my farm, not from some other fellow, some other yahoo down the road. So, I forked out that money and I forked out I think it was $2,700 bucks uh if I'm not mistaken. Neither 27 or $2,900 close to $3,000. We'll just round it at three. Uh to have three animals butchered. my hamburger, uh, beef tips, uh, steaks. I had all sorts of steaks from sirloin steaks to t-bone steaks to ribe eyes to gosh, just every cut of steak you could possibly think of. Steaks, roast, hamburger, lots and lots of hamburger. I think I ended up with somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 pounds of hamburger. That's a lot of hamburger out of those three cows. And that's okay. I understand that. I kept all the organ meat. I kept all the bones. I didn't waste anything. And if id have thought about it, I would have kept the hides and had them tanned. I just don't want to waste any part of this animal. Honestly, I just don't want to do it. It's the kind of person that I am. I want to support local business here. And I want to support these guys. These guys that run this local business. I'm not going to call them out by name, but I did want to support them. And I've also attended some events that they put on. They put on an event every single year. I think it's called the meatball where a lot of farmers can all get together and I'm just giving you some background here. A lot of farmers can all get together in camaraderie and connect with each other and talk with each other and and just get updates on what's going on at the uh at the slaughterhouse at the butcher shop. And slaughterhouse isn't really a very romantic place. But I will say that these guys, it appeared to me they took very good care of the animals. They were very humanely dispatched. Everything was clean from what I could tell. It didn't smell bad. There weren't flies everywhere and everything seemed to be great. I did feel like um when I took my animal there that I was inconveniencing someone and I did uh when I picked my meat up um nobody helped me load it up and they pulled a cart of meat out that didn't have my meat on it and I started putting it in my truck and it wasn't mine. So, I had to take it back off the truck and put it back on. I don't know how many times that's happened to other people at this place. But, it's happened to me twice now. It happened to me with my dad about three years ago, and it happened to me the next…

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