Sorry Griff but it seems several of them have failed in Lancaster County recently. If they can't do it there, it's a tough row to hoe. :(

There is a huge investment for animal handling and fencing. The land in Lancaster is too valuable for this kind of grazing as well. NEPA hill country actually has an advantage there, but it really is just a pipe dream. I ought to just put on some beefers.

Here I can literally go out to a farm, pick an animal out, and within a couple weeks it can be on my grill. After working in the grocery business, and hearing about all of the crappy things that can go on in processing plants etc. we decided that this was the best way for us to continue eating beef (and pork) and not have to worry about all this. Plus, I swear to g*d the meat is SOOOOOOOOOO much better, probably because it's so fresh, and I know our cow was only grain/grass fed. (know the farmer) I would recommend looking into this if you don't want to give up meat, but worrying about what the hell is in it isn't worth the stress.

Sorry for being uninformed, but what happens if you do accidentally eat diseased beef? What are the symptoms, and what is the disease called?

Dear deer hunters, What is the connection to the deer brain wasting disease? I remember hearing about that...

It's not a connection so much as "evidence" in a conspiracy theory.

Isn't chronic wasting all over the midwest by now? That's where my family is, and they're dealing with it.

I'm going to take a small poke at Labrat about fresh meat. If you take a fresh killed steer, cow or what ever, and cook it. You can't chew the damn thing, But if you can find some small family place that kills, and hangs. For I've heard up to 30 days at 30 degrees. Anyway I can't even buy ground chuck :smack:

From that link;

Which is why everybody should chill the fuck out.

Um, I said within a couple weeks, like, it hangs for awhile, then it's processed and frozen, I go pick it up and yum.

My bad. :smack: