A Small Homestead
Welcome to my blog about our adventures on and away from our modest family homestead. We are a young family trying to raise as much of our own food as possible and still enjoy life while holding down full time jobs and work two small home based businesses. Life can get hectic and challenging but at the end of the day we have most importantly each other, good food on our table and a roof over our heads.
This was an interesting and at the same time horrifying read. I didn't think they were going to do it, but I see at the end of the article where it *kind* of mentions where E coli comes from...the only source I know of...poop.
ReplyDeleteEventhough raising your own meat goes thousands of miles beyond the extra one, in the end it comes down to the cleanliness of the butchering facility and their butchering practices that determines whether or not E coli is going to be a problem in our meat.
Yes, true, home grown can also get contaminated if not handled properly.
DeleteWhen they interviewed a Scientist of some sort on the news one day he said a local butcher is no safer than XL Foods and somewhat less safer because they are Provincially inspected. Um, I beg to differ. When we purchase our pork and beef we SEE it being cut up right before our eyes. We tell them what cuts we want, what's going to be hamburger etc....
When we dropped off our chickens we had a tour of the facility, we got to see how clean the facility is. When we picked them up, again we got to see how clean everything is and also our birds were very clean. They have steal tables, cooling tubs......
Sorry Mr. Scientist but I have more faith in the Provincially inspected butcher who's cutting my meat right before my eyes than I do some huge plant that runs 24hrs/day! Just my opinion.