Kroger's "Simple Truth" organic meat, poultry, and eggs?

cloveraz

I am skeptical that all their meat is grass fed and 100% percent hormone free....Just wondering what you ladies and gents think....:drinker:

homesweeths

I'd be interested to hear. I hadn't heard of "Simple Truth" before.

cloveraz

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rotnkat

Thinking of Eating Better?

It's Simple.
Delicious, cage-free eggs. Quality meats, 100% vegetarian-fed and without antibiotics. Fresh organic produce, grown without synthetic fertilizers and free from artificial preservatives. Simple Truth™ and Simple Truth Organic™ provide an uncomplicated, trustworthy solution to the challenge of shopping for
natural food and organic groceries.


This is off of their website and just because it cage free doesn't mean it's pasture raised! The chickens are fed a vegetarian diet (probably grains and soy). I was raised in farm country and I know our chickens weren't vegetarians!!! They are omnivores.

But I will say that it's far better than eating the S.A.D. if that's all you can afford!!!!!

EricCowperthwaite

Also, a vegetarian diet can easily mean that the cattle are fed corn. If labeled organic, then they have to meat certain conditions, which would include no hormones or anti-biotics. However, none of this says that the cattle or chickens are free range or pasture fed.

Let's assume this means no growth hormones, anti-biotics and no animal by-products fed to the animals. But, to keep costs down, the animals are still not free range and they are fed a diet that is mostly grains, rather than grass (and bugs and stuff for the chickens).

Like rotnkat said, way better than the typical industrial/factory beef and chicken you would normally buy at Safeway, Krogers, etc. Just eliminating the hormones and anti-biotics is huge. And I am willing to bet that it's less expensive than my trips to the butcher shop, too.

All in all, probably a good thing. Probably still not as absolutely healthy as the eggs I get from the chickens in my backyard, though. And those, technically, are not organic since I use fertilizer and pesticide in my backyard.

StacyReneO

Thinking of Eating Better?

It's Simple.
Delicious, cage-free eggs. Quality meats, 100% vegetarian-fed and without antibiotics. Fresh organic produce, grown without synthetic fertilizers and free from artificial preservatives. Simple Truth™ and Simple Truth Organic™ provide an uncomplicated, trustworthy solution to the challenge of shopping for
natural food and organic groceries.


This is off of their website and just because it cage free doesn't mean it's pasture raised! The chickens are fed a vegetarian diet (probably grains and soy). I was raised in farm country and I know our chickens weren't vegetarians!!! They are omnivores.

But I will say that it's far better than eating the S.A.D. if that's all you can afford!!!!!

Vegetarian fed means corn & grain. I try to only buy grass fed but if the only other option is 'vegetarian fed' than I'll get that.

cloveraz

Thanks for the replies....