The Conscious Carnivore — Local services in Shorewood Hills

Conscious does not mean honest.

Firstly, I appreciate the idea and goal behind this store’s concept to provide local quality meat to the Madison community. I feel that is a great concept and goal. However, due to my recent experience as a first time customer and meat buyer well experienced in the culture, I am left disappointed and will choose to shop elsewhere based upon my values and needs.

They have a variety of meats. They have some great meats. But as far as providing the highest quality they do not. Their sausages contain MSG. And the Buffalo I purchased for $16.18 cents was confirmed to contain beef in the meat. That is so upsetting to me as a quality game meat consumer. I can buy pure buffalo right across the street WITH NO FILLERS for the same price.

Lastly, I asked about ordering specific meats...they said no sorry. When I confronted the meat representative on the phone about my buffalo purchase he was so dissmive customer service-wise I thought I would return the favor.

So as far as conscious meat eaters go, be alerted that you might be getting a misleading product and be sure to read the true indegrients here as I do not trust their product or support their dismissive approach to treating my...

My partner went today to buy a shoulder of lamb. We only needed 2 1/2 pounds for dinner, and when he pulled up to the curbside, he was told the smallest shoulder they had was 5 pounds. He was asked if the weight was okay, twice, and my partner told the staff member yes, because we needed lamb for the recipe regardless.

They took my partner's credit card information and rang up the lamb inside, since they are only doing curbside pickup, then put the lamb and the receipt in the trunk. It wasn't until my partner took the lamb out of the trunk (because there was some dirt in there and he didn't want it somewhere unclean) that he saw the price tag--the lamb was SIXTY ONE dollars.

Obviously the meat is more expensive here because it's better quality, but nowhere in the process did anyone tell him the price of one piece of meat was going to be x3 more expensive than the rest of the groceries we bought for this recipe, not when they took his credit card, not when they told him the size of the shoulder, not even when they brought the lamb out. That's a ridiculous way of doing business. You can't just use covid as an excuse not to tell your customers how much they're paying...

This place is so special! Sheep ankle bones is of huge significance in my culture as toys for children and sometimes dices for fortune telling. So for my graduation I was hoping to wear them to rep my family and culture. I called many butcher shops in town and had no luck, but I got real lucky when I called Conscious Carnivore! Although I was asking such a nonsense question (“by any chance you have sheep ankle bones for a diy project?”), they offered to check for me and invited me to go over and see them myself, when I got there they had them in the freezer ready, helped me identify those bones, and eventually gave them to me for free! They even gave me advice on how to get the meat and fat off the bones cleanly. I picked the piece with the coolest shape and made a necklace with it and it turned out really pretty and unique. Thank you so much for making my weird little diy project happen! Check this place out first if you got any special bones related diy...