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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: industrial/factory meat
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:18:28 -0500
Nothing fresher or less processed than that.

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On 1/6/2011 11:10 AM, Dean Hansen wrote:
> All this talk of eating "mechanically separated" or whatever meat brings
> me back to thinking of the deer hunting I dearly love:  Climb into deer
> stand, patiently wait for deer to appear, place crosshairs of scope on
> deer's chest, squeeze trigger, watch deer run 50-80 yards, wait.  I'll
> spare you from the details of field dressing (aka "gutting").  Next drag
> deer through the woods to the camp.  Then hang deer, skin while still
> warm, divide into quarters;  remove backstraps and tenderloins, then
> attack the hind legs.  Lots of work with a knife, including removing
> fascia covering muscles and cutting meat away from tendons.  Remove all,
> as in all, fat, which tastes, well, really bad.  And no cutting a bone
> with a saw--it's all knife work.  Cut into steaks and roasts.  Wrap cuts
> with plastic, then freezer paper.  Trim smaller pieces of meat away from
> bone (no robots allowed in deer camps yet) with knife for ground venison
> or sausage.  Hang remainer of carcass in nearby pine tree for the
> chickadees and woodpeckers to feast on for a couple months.
>      It's lots of work and takes lots of time, and I figure the cost of a
> pound of venison (non-resident hunting license $150, time at $0.02/hour,
> land taxes, etc.) has to be over $20.  But I still begin anticipating
> the next November deer season sometime in February or March.  If you
> want to buy affordable meat for a meal, however, corners have to be cut.
> Dean
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