I raise my own beef too, sell locally to several stores, and have no wish to try it. However, given that 30 percent of this planet's arable land is committed to raising livestock and feed for same, something ultimately has to give. Without referencing the collateral damage from methane and the abundance of antibiotics that enter groundwater from manure lagoons at concentrated animal feeding operations, when you consider that the vast majority of this country's beef by weight is packaged into opaque 5 pound chubbies and purchased at a government subsidized discount by people who don't care where it comes from and are only concerned with the fact that it's cheap, the use of natural resources for a largely unnecessary foodstuff is untenable. Frankly, I'd rather purchase laboratory grown ground beef than that goop that passes for hamburger in the grocery store.

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