Gormur wrote:I eat animal products and meat, but only free-range organic. I think it's important that the animals are treated well, but also that I know what I'm eating, not eating anti-biotics, and staying healthful.
I mean, if you're eating an unhealthy animal product, how can you expect to be healthful? You are what you eat, afterall..
Totally agreed.
DelBoy wrote:Gormur wrote:I eat animal products and meat, but only free-range organic. I think it's important that the animals are treated well, but also that I know what I'm eating, not eating anti-biotics, and staying healthful.
Although organic meat farming isn't very good for the animals nor for the meat.... to be certified organic means that the animal can't receive certain medicines. Butchers say that they can usually tell if an animal they get is 'organic' due to the bad quality of the meat and signs of disease...
Well, I haven't heard that, but there is indeed a difference between standard industrial agriculture which happens to abide by the letter of the organic law (but still has cramped spaces for animals, which lead to much higher chances of disease and unhealthy animals as that's not how they were designed to live) and agriculture which adheres to the spirit of the original organic movement in insisting upon sufficient space for animals to be themselves. It's not always easy for the consumer to tell which is which, unfortunately.
I don't think I'm a
supertaster, but I can tell the difference between, say, free-range, organic eggs and standard ones. The former's taste is indisputably richer, yolkier, and the color often slightly more orange. This indicates to me a greater degree of healthfulness of the hen which laid the egg and I would be entirely unsurprised to find out such eggs pack greater nutrients, as well.
I don't eat a lot of meat but in the rare occasions when I buy, say, ground beef I make sure it's grass-fed, free-range, and organic because it also tastes better to me. It tastes like beef
should...rather than being some kind of superbeef it just reminds me "you get what you pay for" in comparison with cheaper ground beef, which in the US means that it was fed on corn (not its natural diet and much less green-friendly, and the corn they give cows is super low quality, full of petroleum-based syntethic pesticides and most likely GMO), most likely given antibiotics because it lived its entire life on a cramped feedlot, and maybe even fed other animal byproducts.
Yes, admittedly the beef I buy is comparatively expensive, but I'm of the mindset that since I don't eat it very often I may as well pay for good quality every once in awhile instead of cheap low-quality crap (literally) all the time. I know people are different but for me as I see it there are so many excellent plant-based sources of protein (incidentally, like the savory soy sausage I'm eating right now) I see little need to eat meat voraciously and that ultimately saves me money, is better for the environment, and I believe is healthier.