Families Saving Money By ‘Cow-Pooling’
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While many families are looking to save as much as they can on the household budget, the pressure is rising to give up expensive foods like grass-fed beef or organic produce.
According to a Time magazine story, "Cow-pooling" has become an increasingly popular way to get high-quality meat without paying exorbitant prices.
After processing, high-quality non-factory-farm meet is sold via the Internet at costs of between $3 and $5 a pound, which is cheaper than the price at a local farmer's market. At that price the meet includes ground beef and stew meet as well as tenderloin and filet mignon -- not to mention tongue and heart.
While cow-pooling still represents only a small portion of all beef sales, the market for direct-farm sales appears to be growing, according to LocalHarvest.org, a national directory of local food producers.
According to a Time magazine story, "Cow-pooling" has become an increasingly popular way to get high-quality meat without paying exorbitant prices.
After processing, high-quality non-factory-farm meet is sold via the Internet at costs of between $3 and $5 a pound, which is cheaper than the price at a local farmer's market. At that price the meet includes ground beef and stew meet as well as tenderloin and filet mignon -- not to mention tongue and heart.
While cow-pooling still represents only a small portion of all beef sales, the market for direct-farm sales appears to be growing, according to LocalHarvest.org, a national directory of local food producers.
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Vierotchka
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Back in the fifties and sixties, my sister in the US used to buy half a cow, a friend of hers buying the other half, and placed all the meat cuts in a freezer, which supplied very cheap meat for her family for months.
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Vierotchka
