[Serial_Worrier]

The meat in stores is starting to get tougher, lower quality cuts. It's one of the "canary in a coal shaft" type deals. It's a prelude to half-in-stock inventories in the JIT model.

[arretium]

SO????

The meat at my grocery store is just as good as it has been in the past.

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('arretium', 'S')O????The meat at my grocery store is just as good as it has been in the past.

[Maddog78]

Sounds like you need to change stores.

[jedrider]

JIT deliver is all shot to hell. I didn't get shipment of my new model high-end energy slave today, I mean, dishwasher. They must be slipping, that they can't produce a new design and ship on time each year!

(Don't bother me, buy wifey is in a tizzy going without a dishwasher another couple weeks. What happens when TSHTF? Don't know, but I'll probably get blamed for that too!)

[Sixstrings]

FWIW, all of the sudden my local Walmart has decided to no longer sell ground sirloin.

I've actually been noticing a lot of screwy things at walmart.. every time I shop, they seem to be out of two or three things on my list (I don't remember this happening in times past). Last time I shopped, they were out of bell peppers.. wtf, walmart can't plan to have bell peppers in stock?

[Pops]

Walmarts sales are up 3-4% I heard - you do that in a recession by selling lots of what people want and not carrying what they don't, crap the Waltons are the richest family in the world and they didn't get there by cutting railroad ties!

[JJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'W')almarts sales are up 3-4% I heard - you do that in a recession by selling lots of what people want and not carrying what they don't, crap the Waltons are the richest family in the world and they didn't get there by cutting railroad ties!

[vision-master]

Just picked up one of these today, to store dry goods and freezer stuff.

I gotta vaccum pack my three years supply of oatmeal.

[SILENTTODD]

Sounds like a good time to go Vegan! I haven't bought any meat in about 5 years. I would not be able to comment if it's getting worse.

[TheAntiDoomer]

well they don't call him Serial "worrier" for nothing.

[Maddog78]

I buy the majority of my meat from a family owned butcher shop and he's been buying his animals from the same farmers/ranchers for years so I've noticed no problems.
He's consistently good and fair priced.
Plus our kids played hockey together.
I support the little guy when I can.

[aldente]

Butchers have all be centralized in Germany as far as i am informed. Maddog obviously still purchases from a "grandfathered right" butcher in Ireland (if that is correct). We have plenty of those left here as well, but the idea is to have a few "gigantic" slaughter houses after all where liabilty can be somewhat kept in check.

Obviously vegetarianism is THE option to deal with the subject matter at its core (I personally subscribe to it, however enjoy and eat what is offered on the table that I visit), but reality has it that meat eating does not just go away like that. It requires compassion (an abused term by the late G.W.) who receives an "E" for effort since there must have been some form of thought development necessary (or was it the term itself that held the message ?). Graphic photo deleted.

[Maddog78]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aldente', 'M')addog obviously still purchases from a "grandfathered right" butcher in Ireland (if that is correct).

[aldente]

There is an Irish Maddog around somwhere though...
Good to hear that Canada is Canada and not the US of A.

Headlines had it that Muammar Gaddafi of Lybia called for the end of Switzerland (since one of his boys was arrested there for "abuse of servants" in a Geneva Hotel).




This is equal to ask Canada to be merged with the US of A for convenient resons, ironic when stated by an outsider.

And why is he in the media? Lybia has oil of high quality (super low sulfur content) running a gas station network in Switzerland under the name of "Tamoil".

What happens to the oil that Lybia is not selling ot Switzerland is unclear, however one thing is clear:

It does not stay underground!

[Jenab]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'T')he meat in stores is starting to get tougher, lower quality cuts. It's one of the "canary in a coal shaft" type deals. It's a prelude to half-in-stock inventories in the JIT model.