Where do you get your meat?

I get everything I need from my local grocery store. They carry marrow bones, livers, hearts, tounge, stomach, and all the "regular" meats.

Can you order stuff online? There are a lot of great raw suppliers online (Im not sure about shipping to Canada, tho)

Maybe contact a slaughter house? Not sure if they'd be willing, but you might be able to buy organs/brains/leftover/unwanted meats/cuts directly from them?

I've never fed brain and I think I'd be afraid to try.  I *think* a lot of the really bad bacterias live in the brain.  Often Walmart carries sliced heart......

Ground meat, hearts, livers, chicken wings from the grocery store.  Organs I get at the mercado.

I only get food from the grocery store if I have to. Where I am anyway, it's so expensive! I think the only thing I get there are my eggs...lol.

I get my chicken through a friend, who gets it privately from her family friend. We get everything but the *usable* parts, and all organs as well.

I get pork hocks, beef ribs, and other meats from my local butcher.

I get ground beef from the local meat market, I go in and ask for the *day-old* meats that they can't sell anymore, and can usually get 15-20 lbs at a time for almost half price. I'll sometimes get other meats there as well.

 Well the brain was an example. I don't think I could bring myself to handle it.. Lol..

I wonder if I talk to the butcher at the grocery store... Kim, it's really expensive to get beef ribs and pork of any kind except for ground. 

Hmmmm

The biggest worry about eating brain would be prion diseases.  Mad Cow is an well known example of a prion disease but there are a few others nasty ones like Kuru that are spread by consuming the brain.  They target the nervous system and are horrable horrable to deal with.  It's not really a problem in the US and it's rare that it will happen but the chances of an animal or human getting it goes up if they eat brains.

 I get most of my meat from a meat distributor, so I buy in bulk.  20-30lbs boxes of chicken backs and beef hearts, etc.  I suppliment what I don't want in bulk from my grocery (especially if there is a sale, I've been known to buy them out of stuff, when there's a good sale :) and from my local Asian Marketplace.... I love that place! I'm from Hawaii, so they have all kinds of stuff I can't find at a local grocery, and it's bonus that they carry some of the less traditional cuts of meat.

 Brains aren't that bad to handle. My local supermarket carries 1 lb tubs of pork brains. Apparently, it tastes good with eggs. I wouldn't know. It's VERY high in DHA. Like helps like, you know

 The dogs really didn't LIKE it, because it's slimy, but ate it fine, mixed with ground meat. I don't feed it, any more, because Emma is no longer here, and she was the one with the brain issue. I buy meat from a local farmer. Eggs, too. The girls like it much better, and it smells different.

 Whenever I think of feeding brains, I think back to Hannibal Lector eating brains on his flight. Lol!!

I wish I had an Asian market here!! I'd have to go in to the city for that and lacking in a car, I can't do that yet.  

Thanks!

 I was thinking about the farmers market. I just haven't made it up that way yet. I'm gonna check it out next Saturday. Hopefully I'll luck out like you did.

I buy from a meat distributor.  I usually order 800-1000lbs at a time, & they deliver it for me.  We also have a raw store here, & if I buy in bulk, their prices are really good.  We're also members of a co-op, so we get meat from there as well. 

It has taken some time, but now, it's easy to get a meat order together, & know that I'm paying the lowest price possible.

We feed brain, & have for the past two years, without issue.  Our guys love it.  Of course, I'll let them try almost anything. 

 Holy crap!! 1000lbs of food!  I don't think I've ever seen that amount in my house. LOL!  I'm hoping to get something better going with my butcher. He feeds his dogs raw but it's ground and I don't want to do that.