Eat Organic Animals?

[PeterJ]

Do you eat Organic Animals only or both? Is Organic Animal meat much better for you?

[Midyrvette]

Peter, I have read the the absolute best source of protein is the meat taken from an alive wild animal (not a farm animal) that is non polluted or diseased. The animal must have just died, (not road kill), and has not been dead for awhile. This is the healthiest form of protein you can possibly eat, you will get more nutrients such as more potassium, less sodium, more vitamins and minerals, less saturated fat, and more essential fats. Makes me think of the way people used to eat 100 years ago, before we had fast food, Mega Nacho Cheesy Poofs, and other processed foods that taste so go you just can stop with eating one. More people lived in rural areas back in the day, and grew and ate their own food. But to answer your original question, I would answer that organic would be the way to go for a healty lifestyle. I occasionally eat organic, cost is a factor, but health is more important.

[Izdaari]

I do prefer organic meats, and other organic foods, but sometimes it isn't economically feasible. I'm barely beyond working poor, so the cost of food is an important factor. If I were richer, a much higher percentage of my diet would be organic. (Not all of it, because some foods I love aren't available that way.)

[MrAnteater]

I would eat organic meat, that being animals my friends or myself have shot in the wild.

I would NOT waste the money buying the supposed organic food from a store. It's the biggest scam going because there are no strict and defined criteria for what qualifies as "organic". It's really loose and just about anything can qualify.

[slightlypuzzled]

Do you eat Organic Animals only or both? Is Organic Animal meat much better for you?


Well, I would hate to eat an inorganic cow, like a wooden replica of one....;)

I have trouble with the designation 'organic' since it is so mis-used in our culture. I think I prefer the 'no additive' tag better.....;)

[PeterJ]

I would eat organic meat, that being animals my friends or myself have shot in the wild.

I would NOT waste the money buying the supposed organic food from a store. It's the biggest scam going because there are no strict and defined criteria for what qualifies as "organic". It's really loose and just about anything can qualify.

Is that ture for all supermarkets to?

[Bethany67]

Currently I'd say mixed, because we're using up freezer stores of ordinary meat but only buying organic/freerange fresh meat and not much of that because it's pretty expensive. Over here you can pay £10-15 for a freerange organic chicken (and I'm searching for a local farm where I can see how the animals are raised), or you can pay £1.99 for one that:

- never saw the light of day
- spent all its life in a cage not much bigger than a standard piece of printer paper, on top of and underneath similar cages, like some hideous scene from The Matrix
- full of antibiotics to combat the spread of infection in such confined quarters, with their beaks cut off to stop them pecking each other
- deformed feet from spending their entire life standing on wire
- pumped so full of growth hormones and artificial chemicals that their legs can't stand their weight and they break, with no treatment.

I don't believe that's how God intends livestock to be treated; Proverbs 12:10 says a righteous man cares for the needs of his animals. We have the current situation because of a Western obssession with eating meat every day, sometimes multiple times, and I've been part of that. No longer.

However the irony is that as a commuter into London with all the other lemmings, I get less relative space to myself than a battery-farmed chicken ...