Tag: pigs

  • Chipotle: Where Guac and Hypocrisy Cost You Extra

    Chipotle: Where Guac and Hypocrisy Cost You Extra

    Maybe it’s the crushing heat we’re experiencing here in Kansas that has me so easily annoyed but upon reading the latest stupidity-driven marketing decision from Chipotle, I felt I needed to bring the blog out of dormancy and share my two dollars (two cents won’t cut it this time). Evil-looking, no? Photo courtesy: Chance Hunley…

  • A Lesson in Patience, Pigs and Passers-by

    A Lesson in Patience, Pigs and Passers-by

      A few weeks back I posted some photos from a wonderful weekend trip to Ohio wherein the Ninja’s middle sister won the Grand Champion Market Hog at the Ohio State Fair. This accomplishment, which I should mention is a family win and not just limited to her, earned her and her hog a spot in…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Champions

    Wordless Wednesday: Champions

      Some pig   Here comes the champion Once in a lifetime Kroger purchased the Grand Champion Market Hog for $42,000. Kroger representatives pose with the purchase and the Frobose family after the Sale of Champions  At the buyer’s meal after the Sale of Champions Until next time, ~ Buzzard ~ 

  • Decorating with Meat

    Decorating with Meat

    Well, maybe not literally. But it’s no secret that the Ninja and I love meat and livestock. So much that we decorate a lot of surfaces and rooms of our house with those themes in mind. Here are just a few examples of what we’re rocking right now but it change every few months because I get bored:…

  • Sequestration Is a Big Deal — Why USDA Inspectors Are Vital to the Meat Industry

    Sequestration Is a Big Deal — Why USDA Inspectors Are Vital to the Meat Industry

    image from here There’s a lot of hubbub about potentially furloughing all USDA meat inspectors for two weeks beginning on March 1. My friend Jenny, who has spent countless days working in her family’s meat locker, wrote a fantastic post about the potential impact of no inspectors in the meat plant for two weeks. Please…