Black Out Day #4
What will the new day bring?
Daily WOD – Sep 21, 2012
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For anyone interested, there is one eighth of a cow unaccounted for in the order coming in on Tuesday evening. It is all grassfed beef from a small farm in Lancaster and it should total between 50 and 70 pounds of packaged meat (ground beef, roasts, steaks). The cost is 397 dollars. If interested, send us an email.
I’d just like to chime in that this is the heathiest meat money can buy! I’m not sure how many of you know about the difference between grassfed meat and the stuff you buy in grocery stores, but here is a short (?) version.
Usually when you buy meat at the grocery store, it is from cattle that was raised on a huge farm out west. The cows eat grains, live in unsanitary conditions, and are treated with all sorts of antibiotics. As a result the cows are not very healthy, and the meat has high omega 6 content (inflammatory). The cows are butchered in a huge meat facility, where everything was sprayed with chemicals to keep it from growing bacteria. The meat was then shipped across the country to your grocery store. The meat is not very high quality and honestly not all that healthy. (OK, who else watched Food, Inc? If you haven’t, you should!)
John and I eat exclusively grassfed beef. About a month ago, we bought two full cows. (Believe it or not this costs about $3200 per cow). They were raised at a farm in Lancaster, living on an open pasture and eating a 100% grass diet. This means the meat has a high omega 3 content (anti-inflammatory), and is also very lean. It is the way meat is supposed to be! The cows were sent to a local butcher about a week ago, and each cow was divided into eighths (so we will have 16 shares total).
Locally raised, grassfed beef usually costs about $5/lb (for ground beef) up to $25/lb (for some high end steaks). Our delivery will be a mix of ground, roasts, and steaks, and it works out to about $7 per lb. It’s a great price. Plus, you can feel good knowing that ICA is supporting a local farmer and his son who are working hard to raise cows in a healthy, environmentally sustainable way!
The meat will comfortably fit in a regular size kitchen freezer. It is vacuum packed in small portions, and will last for many months. If you are worried about 50-70lbs of meat, feel free to go in with a friend and split the 1/8.
Great post! After seeing regular beef and how they put pink slime on it to sanitize it is pretty gross.
Just out of curiosity, is the place where they are butchered inspected? USDA or other? This is one of my concerns with buying beef this way.
Yes Joe, the farm brings the cattle to a USDA certified butcher for cutting and packaging
John, I am very interested in the 1/8th cow. Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to come up Tuesday night to pick it up. I would be able to pick it up Thursday night at the earliest if there is somewhere it can be set aside. However, if you find someone else that can pick it up Tuesday please let them have the meat and maybe I will get in next time you order.
Ashlee and I would go in on half of the remaining 1/8 – anyone looking to split this with us?
Well said Nikki, as a heads up broadwater farm around the corner from us also raises exclusively grass fed beef, they also own Charlestown farm, I have been talking to the owner about the product they carry something else. These people also head up the pville farmers market!
@ Mark F I would split the remaining costs with you and Ashlee. I am in.
Sounds like a plan!
Cool!
Wait, didn’t Scott say he wanted it?
OK thanks for the posts guys. We can cover both eighths – Mark and Jimbo split one, and Scott’s getting the other. But now all 16 shares are definitely accounted for, so no more offers! Please have the $397 to John asap – tomorrow at the latest. Cash is great, or you can write a check to John Warnek, not ICA. Thanks!
Checks made to Mark “The Champ” Kehl work as well. I also accept dollar bills.
Today’s Blackout WOD was a chipper!
75 ring dips
75 deadlifts (155/105)
75 pull ups
75 sit ups
75 double unders.
6:15am
Mickey 26:54 (P,P, 150 SU)
Mario 18:59 (135)
Lindsey 30:00 (mm, 100#, Rx PU!)
Jenn 29:47 (MF, 95, leg raises)
9:30am
Korba 32:31 (2xmm, P, 135)
Ron 40:43 (50 reps, P, G, 85#, 100 SU)
Tom S 35:59 (50 reps, P, P, 73#, 100 SU)
Jess 31:15 ( P, mm, 75, DUA)
Emily 30:50 (Navy, G+mf, 45#, 150 SU)
Matt C 34:20 (mm, mm)
Scott 36:08 (P, G, 135, 225 SU)
4:30pm
Dani 30:03 (P, 83, mm+P)
Chase 31:46 (PU, 135, P)
Nikki 21:43 Rx
Brendan 36:41 (mm, 115, 75 SU)
Joel 36:08 (P, 115, G, 150 SU)
Nick 28:17 (mf, 135)
5:30pm
Sabol 28:38 (DC PU, DUA)
Phil 26:37 Rx
Laurie 23:58 (P, 95, MF)
Kim H 27:15 (P, 95, G)
Rachael 31:32 (P, 95, G)
Jerry 36:16 (mm, 103, P, 150 SU)
Way to push through a brutal WOD! We promise to give those arms a break tomorrow 🙂
O’Neill’s garage done on 9/22
Barb 27:56 (blue, mf)
Scott 19:30 (135)