{"id":15842,"date":"2023-07-05T22:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T06:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=15842"},"modified":"2023-07-05T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T06:55:20","slug":"buying-a-whole-animal-to-save-money-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/buying-a-whole-animal-to-save-money-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying A Whole Animal To Save Money or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person was telling me today that he was thinking of buying a whole cow with other people as they would split the meat and then store it in a freezer to be consumed throughout the year.  At first I thought they were doing it as they would be saving money where that would be the assumption if people are just buying a whole cow as an example.  But apparently after all the butchering and delivery it\u2019s more expensive than buying it at say the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>So, saving money didn\u2019t seem to be a benefit to this if that was your mindset.  But ultimately, I believe the main reasons was he would be buying a genuine product per se where he knows where his food comes from.  This is versus not knowing if you are buying meat from a farm that raised very poor animals as an example.<\/p>\n<p>You would think buying the animal whole would be cheaper such as growing your own little garden of vegetables.  But I guess here it\u2019s more of a premium of sort to get quality product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person was telling me today that he was thinking of buying a whole cow with other people as they would split the meat and then store it in a freezer to be consumed throughout the year. At first I thought they were doing it as they would be saving money where that would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[5636,44],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-animal","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/business_9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-47w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15843,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions\/15843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}