Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more expensive, but it's a very sustainable product.
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.