If I ever get an inkling that companies are exporting unfinished meat for processing and bringing it back in. I will not buy that meat. Hamberger locally at 4.95 a pound that is made from meat that is reaching its shelf expiry date as steaks roasts or whatever is bad enough. Especially if it is frozen to hold it till needed. Well at least they are honest as I never see the term fresh hamburger with this stuff.

We basically have one self standing meat store that is pretty good in our area.. I expect that the larger enterprises will drive him out of business at some point.

Logically he has to buy his raw product from the same sources as the giants and they can play games. I watched them run the local vegetable stands out of business years ago. Just sold vegetables a lot cheaper perhaps below cost for perhaps a year did it. Against the law perhaps but this can be worked around or circumvented by large enterprises.. The smaller enterprise cannot buy the raw products as cheap as the giants either. Some would say that this is just competition. Really though since they are intentially selling the product below their cost to destroy a much smaller company it is an illegal event.