@sickburnbro i just purchased a half cow a few days ago actually and I'll tell you it really throws the idea that we have an efficient or fair system out the window. This guy is complaining about meatpacking wages not being acceptable, but I still manage to pay my local butcher more for his time AND somehow wind up with better quality yet cheaper meat. I really just don't get what these big companies are wasting all that money on.

Also I highly recommend going the above route on meat. Buying a medium sized chest freezer was one of the best investments I've made in the last decade, hands down. You will EASILY recoup the few hundred you spend on it with your first half cow and the electrical costs are almost nothing.