Reply #13: Maybe, maybe not

[matt819]

But, you know, I'm not sure I care all that much about USDA labels when I'm buying meat raised and grass-fed locally and that passes through few, if any, additional hands before it reached my butcher.

By the way, you really do have to ask questions. When I decided to stop eating feedlot meat earlier this year, I started buying meat at a local grocery store with its own butchers. They were pretty knowledgeable, very helpful, and, to the extent you can tell anything by looking at raw meat, it looked pretty good. Then I asked the question. Hey, is this local grass fed meat? Is the chicken local free range chicken? No on all counts. It was all industrial beef and chicken.