Organic Meat?

curvykatie

Hi,

How many of you eat organic meat? do you notice a difference in it? and is it worth the extra cost? Do you just make it go further to balance out the cost? Just as an example in Morrisons in the UK their organic chicken is about £7 ($11 - ish) for 2 fillets.

I would rather go for the organic - i just dont know if i can afford it.

Katie
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Moonblood

I eat only organic meat. The extra cost is so worth it. I find the meat to be so much more flavourful! I can get organic chicken breasts (usually a package of 2-3) for around the same price ($11). I eat the same amount of meat as before organic, I just budget it so I can afford it.

IvoryParchment

I would totally spend the extra money if I didn't have to drive to Whole Foods to buy it. But the Whole Foods near me is a small store, with half the shelves full of nutriceuticals and cosmetics. If I shopped there, I still would have to go to another grocery to buy the rest of my food. And I don't buy meat often anyway.

I try to buy eggs from free range chickens, as my supermarket offers several brands. I buy some of my milk from free range cows, but frankly, it doesn't taste as good as the regular stuff, so I can only use it when I'm not drinking it straight. (I prefer skim milk, but apparently the organic milk producers think everyone wants to drink stuff that tastes like whole milk even if it isn't.) But substituting part of my milk purchases with stuff that is more humanely produced is better than doing nothing at all.

purpletrillium

I don't know about chicken, but I feel physically better when I eat organic beef. I have acid reflux, and the symptoms are much less when I eat organic and not regular beef.

MaraDiaz

I would if I could get it. There is a reason so many European countries have banned growth hormones in meat.

IvoryParchment

I don't know about chicken, but I feel physically better when I eat organic beef. I have acid reflux, and the symptoms are much less when I eat organic and not regular beef.

Makes sense -- grass fed beef would be less fatty.

RonSwanson66

I don't know about chicken, but I feel physically better when I eat organic beef. I have acid reflux, and the symptoms are much less when I eat organic and not regular beef.

Makes sense -- grass fed beef would be less fatty.

Not all grass fed beef is organic.
Not all organic beef is grass-fed.

The body of evidence shows no nutritional benefit to organic foods:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/is-organic-food-more-healthful/

IvoryParchment

Personally, I'm less concerned about taste/nutritional differences than about how it impacts on the environment or whether the animals are cared for humanely. Corn fed beef does taste good, but it takes food out of the mouths of people in Mexico who are seeing the price of corn meal skyrocket due to diversion of corn to alcohol production. And pesticides/corn with bT genes can be harmful to beneficial species like honeybees. Honeybees are rare as hens teeth where I live. I can't grow tomatoes unless I go out with a paintbrush and pollinate them myself.

neanderthin

I consume local beef, actually within 10 minutes of my house. Not organic, but from someone that is dedicated to responsible farming. Personally if I was a cow, it would be considered a country club. Mostly grass fed, climate permit with rotating pastures, and also hay and grain as secondary feed. Raises his cattle to maturity which takes about twice as long as factory farming.