Pork that tastes of sewage

[tman]

dluther, I've passed by your place many times over the last 10 years while my time in SK/AB and when I visit my friends just like I did last month. I agree, you need more information on your website. Everything from production to cutting to marketing. Are you grass fed/finish operation with your bison and pork? I don't remember seeing a sign along the highway advertising your meat. Do you have one and I just missed it? You're in a prime location.

I've had thoughts of grazing a couple of my brother's pigs at my place to get away from the grain meat.

[dluther]

Thanks for visiting our site and the tips. We are just expanding so we need input ,as far as size of packs they can be 1 pound of burger to a whole animal just phone ,e-mail and let us know ,we run farmer hours 24/7. At this time our products are grain fed, no hormones or drugs but I can let you know of people that have pasture raised pork. THANKS AGAIN and pass it on to your friends

[grgsrvc]

Guys the quality of your meat has more to do with the butcher then how it was
raised!!! It is the easiest thing in the world for the butcher to blame the
farmer/rancher for poor quality meat when in fact there is very little the
rancher/farmer does that affects the meat. Don't fall for the downloading the
liability on the farmer game the packers like to play.

eg. Maple leaf and their listeriossis sp. problem was not caused by dirty
machines, but by a "profit guru" who recomended to extend the shelf life of the
meats. If you remember your high school math and exponations you will recall the
graph that goes off the top in the last day or two and how flat the line stays for
a long time until then.

Sorry for the rant. But quit blaming the "factory raised meats" as the reason meat
tastes like it does. Last time I sold animals they were called hogs or cattle. It
is after that when they are slaughtered and processed do they become pork or beef.

[Jay-mo]

I totally agree. I was getting a hog processed at a particular butcher and was not very impressed with the taste. Switched to a different butcher, still getting the hog from the same farmer and the taste was 100% better.
The butchering process makes the biggest difference.

[wilagro]

I disagree. When pork tastes like the sewage pits BELOW where these pigs are raised, then I reckon there must be a connection.

My brother raised hogs for years and he says the same thing. He raised his hogs the old-fashioned way with lots of straw for bedding and outside range in the summer. He sold many locally and never had a complaint and indeed had much praise for his quality product.

I have been a producer, meat cutter and retailer. When I get crappy product there are few if any steps to rectify the situation by cutting it differently.

[grgsrvc]

Willagro how do you know what sewage
tastes like?

[Jay-mo]

Obviously, good pork needs to start with a good quality hog. The point I was making is that the butchering, cutting and wrapping has a large part to play in the final product.

I totally disagree with your comment on barn or pasture raised pork.
Maybe the thought that your pork chop once frolicked in some imaginary grassy glade helps it taste better, but I've seen lots of pasture fed pigs who spend most of their day neck deep in a mixture of mud and their own $hit, when the nice clean straw pile beside them goes ignored.
They're pigs, if they want to cool off they find the nearest source of muck, whatever it may be.

[wilagro]

grgsrvc: I know what it smells like...I have toured these "factory farms" where the stench was almost unbearable.

[tman]

I don't fall for any game that anyone plays. "there is very little the
rancher/farmer does that affects the meat"...wow, that scares me when someone says that. It shows me extreme ignorance or denial.

I have formed my opinion of how meat should be raised and produced after working in 5 feedlots in Western Canada and the States. A lot of people like grain fed and that's great.

I have eaten grain fed beef that tasted great and I've eaten grain fed beef that tasted so bad I threw it out. I've eaten grass beef that tasted great but I've never had to throw any of that meat out. Mind you 99% of it has been from our own animals. Dad use to feed grain to the animals and that meat tasted good too.

But if you can have just as good of meat from grass as from grain, why not do it. It's healthier for us and the animal.

[skhadenuf]

There is no doubt that the "factory farm" style pigs do taste different well plain and simple sometimes like shit, no way an animal standing above it's own crap 24/7 is not going to absorb some of that smell, but I do think some of it is what feed they are on also, corn vs peas wheat etc. I truly miss the good old days we used to butcher our own on the farm, fortunately we have a neighbor that lets his animals outside, not totally wide open free range but big enough space during summer, winter he has huts with heatlamps, great tasting product. Should note the local hutterites buy his pork even though they have their own barns they won't eat their own pigs due to the methane smell of the meat.