Re: goat meat

flylo@txcyber.com
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:08:20 -0500

Pat: (and Charlie):
Thanks for replying to my post! I realize that broken down to the
molecular level, meat certainly is going to have the same
components. However, I've never been to the store and noticed the
meat displays all heaped together under signs "It's just molecules
anyway."
People respond to what they have had ingrained into them. Fat,
saturated fat, calories are 'bad', so even our doctors say to find
foods with low ones. (Poultry, fish). The reference to red meat is
mainly because most people who watch their intake have (often
reluctantly) given up red meat.
And, the reference to the dated chart on my page, even your more
recent quotes you stated 'about 3grams' in all meats. (Goat is still
lower.)
I realize most people don't have access to a lot of goat in their
market choices. The goat (or chevon) I've seen at the store is some
criopak horror I wouldn't even know what to do with should I
actually buy it.
BUT, anyone with a few acres and a lenient zoning board can raise
their own milk and some of their meat. An 8 month old wether will
usually weigh between 85 and 90 pounds, dress out to around half
of that. I don't think that's too bad an exchange for some milk and
yard trimmings.

I'm actually more concerned with avoiding foods that have an
intensive grow method. Any animal (chicken) that's table ready in 7
weeks, (SEVEN WEEKS, a tomato takes longer!) has had things
done to it from birth on up that we need to take into consideration
when we eat it. They've been genetically engineered (there's that
term again) to grow at remarkable rates, but almost impossible to
do on feeds without antibiotics. (Backpedaling a little here, I said
'almost' because there are some who are doing it with organic
feeds, I've been told.)
Maybe it's time to add another 'value' to our food value charts, a
column that lists amounts of medications & additives found in the
meat after processing.

Martha, (Texas)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/5505/index.html

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