Can you tell me if the meat YOU buy is cut by a meat cutter in the store or if it shipped in a pre-cut package a thousand miles away?

The big four meat packers in the United States do not want to see more meat cutters working in local super markets. They want to pre-cut your meat and ship it long distant to the big chain stores.

The meat from these packing plants has already been cut and processed many days before it even reached the big stores. It will then likely lay in the meat display cases for an additional three days, where it can be purchased for consumption.

The big four meat companies have had many recalls on meat. They have had recalls on meat that has been contaminated with Listeria, Salmonella and E-coli. Packers are known to hire very cheap non-union labor to cut and pre-pack their products.

Large packers will mix meat from 750 to a 1000 different cattle a day. This practice highly increases the chances of contamination. Meat from one steer can contaminate all the ground beef it touches as well as every piece of meat on the cutting lines. A local meat cutter will never mix beef from more than two sides, therefore greatly reducing the risk of contamination. Meats that are processed locally have very little chance to acquire deadly bacteria. Butcher shops and small Independent stores care more about the type of meat you eat, they want to buy from local farmers and ranchers, have it process locally so it reaches you in a day or two.

Packers and big chain super markets no longer offer apprenticeship programs for young men and women who want to learn the meat cutting trade. America is about 4500 professional meat cutters short, the need will be for 143,000 in the next 7 years, Currently only four schools in the United States train people to be meat cutters.

We need to reopen our trade schools to teaching meat cutting to young men and women wanting to learn the Art of meat cutting and start a program in trade schools that never had a program. With qualified meat cutters Independent Grocery stores, our local food movement and butcher shops can supply us with meat better for us. they can hold seminars in schools to educate our young people what types of meat is better for them, they can have meat cutting tours to show our young people where cuts come from and how to prepare them

Meatcuttersclub.org is a non-profit organization, EIN: 46-4224176_______ DUNS: 07-939-8146 with members from 53 countries that has a mission.

Our mission is to:
Promote the arts, science and traditions of the meat Industry (including sausage making, the craft of salting, smoking, and curing)
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To instill a sense of "Pride in Our Trade" through educational and advanced training from meat cutters of 53 different countries around the world.

We are a support group to young meat cutters who want to learn the meat cutting trade.

We are a social site to all in the meat industry who wish to connect with their brother/sister meat cutters/butchers from around the world to share knowledge, friendship or business propositions.

We support and promote the latest issues regarding our trade.
H.R. 3187, the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME)

WorldSkills International promoting vocational education and training.

The Meat Merchandiser Certification program from Muscolo Meat Academy

We support Kari Underly and her Muscolo Meat Academy

We support redmeatmarket.com mission to connect "Meat Lovers" with all local natural, pastured meat providers.

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