Farm meat: description, production, types

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 20:55

With the introduction of EU sanctions, there are much fewer low-quality imported meat products on the Russian market. However, even now, unhe althy counterfeits are still quite common on store shelves. After all, it is simply impossible to raise domestic agriculture, which has fallen into complete decline over the years of purchasing imported products, in just a couple of years. That is why meat stuffed with hormones continues to enter the Russian market - bypassing sanctions, mainly through third world countries.

In pursuit of momentary profit, the established technologies for raising animals are also violated by many domestic agricultural producers. Therefore, when buying meat in a store or even in the market, you should be extremely careful and careful.

How to distinguish a farm product from a fake

In order not to buy a counterfeit that is harmful to he alth, when choosing meat, first of all, you should pay attention, of course, to its appearance. A natural quality product has the following characteristics:

1. Smooth and dry cut. Distinguish farm meatfrom a fake, for example, by slightly blotting it with a clean napkin. If the product is of high quality, there will be practically no traces on it.
2. Juice from a fresh cut on a piece of natural meat stands out exceptionally clear and in very small quantities.

3. The fat layers in a quality product are pearly white. Their yellow hue indicates that the animal was most likely either very old or sick.
4. Quality pork is always a soft pink color, and beef is a raspberry red, not too pale and not too bright. Farm poultry can be distinguished from regular poultry by a slightly darker shade.

Product after heat treatment

Dishes made from farm meat obtained by raising animals using traditional technologies, has a pleasant taste and smell. Goulash, cutlets and counterfeit soups definitely cannot boast of such qualities. Among other things, when cooking or frying, farm meat practically does not lose weight. A fake product, after heat treatment, can often decrease in volume by two to three times.

Varieties

Beef in our country is perhaps the most popular farm meat. Pork is also sold in stores a lot. However, in addition to these two most common varieties, in the modern grocery market there is also such farm meat as:

1. Rabbit. Because this view isin our country is not particularly popular, its large deliveries from abroad are not made. Therefore, in most cases, it is farm and natural.
2. Lamb. Some people believe that if such meat does not have a specific smell, this means that it is a fake. However, this opinion is not entirely correct. Many breeds of sheep brought to our country recently are distinguished precisely by the fact that their meat does not smell like lamb at all. Therefore, when choosing such a product, as well as beef or pork, first of all, you should still pay attention to its appearance.
3. Poultry meat. Both domestic and imported products of this variety are very often counterfeit. The lion's share of hormonal duck, chicken and goose meat is supplied to the market by large Russian poultry farms. Of course, well-known imported legs are not a natural product in most cases.

What you should know

A buyer in Russia today should be especially careful when choosing beef. There is very little quality meat of this variety on the domestic market in our time. The fact is that for growing, for example, the same bird, it takes not too much time - only about six months. To get high-quality pork, the farmer needs about 11-12 months. Cattle, on the other hand, gain slaughter weight in most cases no earlier than 2.5 years. Therefore, the new domestic farms organized after the imposition of sanctions,engaged in the cultivation of cows and bulls, they simply did not have time to fill the market with quality products.

How natural meat is made: feed

Developing the right diet is something that an entrepreneur who organizes a farm should definitely take care of. Meat in animals and poultry can be of high quality only if good natural feed is used. Such, for example, as:

• wheat, oats, barley and other grains;
• root crops (primarily fodder beets, as well as rutabagas, potatoes, carrots, etc.);
• meadow grass hay (for cattle and small cattle), silage, etc.

As additives for obtaining such a product as farm meat, only vitamins, baker's yeast and mixtures containing useful microelements (mainly calcium) are used in exemplary farms. Hormonal preparations that reduce the time for animals to gain slaughter weight by two to three times, as well as various harmful chemical supplements, are not used in this case.

Of course, the farm meat received in this way has earned very good reviews from consumers. The types of such a natural product may be different. But one thing unites them - any dishes prepared from them have a wonderful taste and at the same time do not cause any harm to he alth.

Besides improper feeding, what else can negatively affect the quality of meat?

Some farmers, including domestic ones, among other things, when raising animals and poultry, they greatly abuse the use of various kinds of medicines, mainly from the group of antibiotics. He althy cows and pigs are simply given periodic injections to prevent even minor illnesses. This allows agricultural producers to save certain amounts on the services of veterinarians. But this approach, of course, ultimately leads to a significant decrease in the quality of meat.

Where in our country you can buy natural products

Farmed meat is sold in Russia in most cases, of course, only on the market. Here, usually on weekends, it is sold by villagers who come to the city. Sometimes a similar product (most often chicken or rabbit meat) can also be purchased from summer residents. They sell high-quality farm meat and specialized stores owned by small and medium-sized agricultural producers. Prices for natural beef in such outlets most often start at 600 rubles, for pork - from 300 rubles.

In large metropolitan areas, some intermediary firms sell farm meat with delivery. Employees of such companies bring the freshest product directly to the buyer's house directly from the farmsteads of private traders or from the slaughterhouse. However, such a service is, of course, quite expensive, and not every city dweller can afford to make such orders.