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[NightskyeB4Dawn]

@"FlyingClayDisk" 

Thanks for the information. I'm glad you brought those things up. Now that I think of it, the package didn't indicate that the beef was open range. There are so damn many things to try and keep track of. You're spot on regarding the labels too. As an example, I always try to buy organic free range chicken and eggs. But I'm sure that these conglomerates can find ways to still keep a bunch of chickens stuffed nuts to butts and still be able to call it free range. Of course, these products are so damn expensive, and with inflation the way it is, I won't be able to afford these products anyway. I may as well go back to just getting the regular stuff and shrugging it off. 

Nobody can trust labels of any kind. It sucks, but oh well.

No one is as anal about their chickens as my brother is about his. Now he has ducks and he treats them like children.

No GMO products. No table scraps. He used to let them completely free range, but the onslaught of coyote we got after they cleared nearly 4,000 acres less than 5 miles from us, he now has to house them at night and they are in a huge run during the day. 

He has way more eggs than he can keep so he gives his eggs away, and his eggs are way better than the ones they are charging $8.00 a dozen for in the stores, and he has people standing in line to get them.

It sounds crazy that he would "give" away a product he pays so much money for, and people actually want, but he is rewarded in many other ways.

People out here will share what they have. Even if it is just time and knowledge. One of the people that gets his eggs regularly, has been keeping bees for over 50 years. He comes over regularly and helps my Brother with his bees. Many others share their produce and whatever they have.

Being in an unicorporated rural area, we have to depend on ourselves and each other. We still live on dirt roads, those roads belong to us, right up to the middle, so we have to maintain them. Four or five of the neighbors take turns grading the roads, to make them easier and smoother to maneuver. After storms, if we have fallen trees, on the roads, the neighbors get together, with their chain saws and they take care of it.

We have no agency to call. If it is a community issue, we take care of it. We don't have HOAs, we have call or visit your neighbors when you have to troubleshoot. Sort of old fashioned but it works.