Prefer Free range or Normal?

[PeterJ]

Do you prefer to eat free range or normal cage chickens? or organic? what do you buy mostly?

[TrophyofGrace]

I prefer free range meats and organic food but because it tends to be more expensive than normal, run-of-the-mill supermarket stuff it's not something I buy all the time. I wish I could; I find it tastes better!

[SethElijah]

I would love to be able to afford to buy all organic, or quit my job and just grow all our own stuff, however........I am back in reality now, and the run of the mill supermarket stuff will have to be just fine with all the boys I feed in my house!

[daughter]

Okay, I'm going to go all objectionably vegan on you guys now.

Why would one want to eat the decomposing flesh of a dead bird, whether it was free range or "caged", if there was an alternative?

If I was going to eat a dead bird, it wouldn't make much difference if it was "free range" or "caged" to me... no animal ever walks freely into a slaughter house. And there isn't that much difference in taste, from what I recall. In fact, if you're paying for "free range", you're probably paying for your conscience to feel less bad, rather than a significant difference to the animal concerned. I've investigated "free range" and regular facilities in this country, and the only difference is that "free range" make more money on their animals, and have better spin doctors. How can any chicken farm truly be "free range," with two thousand plus birds per shed?

My advice is... if you really feel bad about eating animals, then just don't do it. We weren't originally designed to eat them after all.

If you just feel uncomfortable about their living conditions, but like the taste of their flesh, you might as well eat the cheap stuff, rather thna pay some spin merchant on the expensive stuff, because it makes no difference to a hen how she dies.

Free range is a con, designed to fleece people with compassion out of their money. That's a fact. If you're going to eat a dead hen, don't pretend "free range" is any better than regular, it's just marketting in the end.

Sorry guys.

[PeterJ]

What are spin doctors? they let the chickens out to walk the grass by free range; also what bible verses you have that says we are not design to eat animals?
I recall verses that God says to eat meat. He put them for mankind.


lastly if you dont eat meat daugher how can u know what tastes better ? btw organic is much better.

[PeterJ]

In the US They feed there chickens with soy; free range they dont; so that makes them taste diffent.
What do they feed Organic chicken with?

[Moxie]

What are spin doctors? they let the chickens out to walk the grass by free range; also what bible verses you have that says we are not design to eat animals?
I recall verses that God says to eat meat. He put them for mankind.


lastly if you dont eat meat daugher how can u know what tastes better ? btw organic is much better.

Spin doctors: Personnel specially trained to recognize and treat outlandish stories given to the public because someone thinks we are too stupid to recognize it.

Before the fall, man did not eat meat. In Genesis 1:29 God tells Adam and Eve he will give them every seed bearing plant and fruit for food. I find this interesting: In verse 30 it also says, "and to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground...I give every green plant for food." Does this mean that animals were not carnivorous?

[soccersuz13]

I definitely prefer free range because I think every little effort to improve the treatment of animals is extremely important. However, I also admit that the increased cost of free range affects my purchase choice.

[daughter]

What are spin doctors? they let the chickens out to walk the grass by free range; also what bible verses you have that says we are not design to eat animals?
I recall verses that God says to eat meat. He put them for mankind.


lastly if you dont eat meat daugher how can u know what tastes better ? btw organic is much better.

I used to eat meat, when I was growing up. That's how I know the tastes.

Moxie is right, that before the fall we didn't eat meat. Since the flood we live in an even harsher environment, and God has given us permission to eat meat. Since I have plenty of other things to eat besides animals, I choose not to eat them. But it's a matter of personal choice, not a salvation issue.

[PeterJ]

So how come God change it for us to eat meat? did it used to be a sin to eat meat?

[daughter]

I don't know if it was a sin... I think it was a "ewgh... why are you eating that? It's icky!"



Scripture doesn't say if eating meat was ever a sin, so we shouldn't speculate. It doesn't matter from a salvation point of view, and it's not a sin nowadays, so I'll not go there. Some folks can get ever so religious in their vegetarianism (and I know, since I've done it myself before I was Christian.) What matters isn't what we eat, but Who we celebrate in our eating.

God changed the rules, it seems, because post flood the world changed dramatically... humans became less strong, less long lived, the environment was much harsher. I think our diet changed to reflect those harsher conditions.