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Why should I buy organic meat at the grocery store instead of the cheapest meat that looks good?

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expert_mom | 3 years, 5 months ago
One of the advantages of consuming organic meat over commercialized meat is pretty obvious. While commercialized meat is cheap and affordable, organic meat are void of growth hormones and other antibiotics conventionally used to raise farm animals to promote growth and to prevent infections. Not only that, organic meat has no chemical risks than commercialized meat.

Not only is organic meat healthier for you, you are also helping the environment in the long term

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powerfulmask | 3 years, 5 months ago
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silentthunder | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Certified meat from the grocery store is probably one of the best you can buy.

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ledretch | 3 years, 5 months ago
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In France Organic food sticks to strict rules; I dunno if it's likewise in the US, but in theory, it prevents you from eating steroids, antibiotics and pesticids on animal food.
the way the animal is killed is more respectful (if death can be) and hygien when preparing food if much better.
I give organic food (dairy products, milk and meat, veggies, fruits) to my 4 years old boy.

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tracebooks | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Beyond organic is pasture-fed. Organic cows can still be raised in confinement, where they're more likely to get sick and don't have as much natural nutrition in their feed. And if they're being fed grain, their gut flora changes and they're still more likely to carry e-coli . It's almost a non-issue in pasture-fed cattle.
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bmlhailstone | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I would just buy the cheapest meat that looks good. Certified organic is nice, and you may not be eating hormones, which would be great. But honestly, wouldn't you rather just pay less and eat something a little grosser? It's a recession man.

Me, I prefer turkey meats, so they're pretty organic to begin with.

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chuckd76 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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If you're gonna clog your arteries with a steak, might as well have healthy hormone-free clogged arteries.

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lynemma | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

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richonion | 3 years, 5 months ago
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organic meat comes from farms that grew cows without giving lots of chemical foods.And the meat is fresher than cheapest meat even though it more expensive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_meat

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redbeard | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Mad Cow Disease.

Organic meat is potentially way better in terms of healthy. the cows arent fed hormones or pesticide grass. Organic also means the cows roamed freely thus making them healthier animals. Before, cows were stacked upon each other in levels, and sometimes s**t from one cow would fall into the cow belows food supply causing them to eat it. Mad cow disease was caused from the slaughterhouse butchers who would butcher a cow almost dying, and fed the other cows in the barnyard the leftovers of the cow they jus previously butchered... causing a chemical reaction.

I have researched this before and I dont know the websites I had looked at... but primarly this info and some other info from friends is what causes me to shop at whole foods for alot more healthy advantages.

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romuo | 3 years, 5 months ago
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also organic cows are 99.99% treated MUCH better than the commercial cows. you will feel good about not only eating healthier meat but that the cow had a decently happy life.

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jenny3jellybean | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Well.. a good organic meat doesn't have added chemicals - hormones for example. and hopefully were fed with non treated feed to boot.
Cheap meat you have no clue how they are treated.
Local farms are the best way to go if you can get into a farm co-op.

Typically run about 500 dollars a bushel. Some sell half shares. Meats, and other plants.
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Was part of a local co-op that have Veggies, Fruit, Buffalo, Eggs, Lamb, Chicken. They also gave out plants to plant from the nursery the wife ran.

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nyssa | 3 years, 5 months ago
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If you are concerned about hormones in the meat you should by organic. I recently heard on NPR's FreshAir organic meat does not mean purely grass fed. Only that the feed that was fed the animals was grown organically and no hormones added.

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offthedome | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Because as the other meat gets more popular, it'll go the same way a lot of fruits have gone: bigger, but actually less nutritious and frequently even less tasty.

That's not to say that you shouldn't go with the cheapest meat if it's less than half the price of the organic stuff. But if we're talking about a dollar per pound, it's probably hitting your wallet a lot less than you think.

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skinner | 3 years, 5 months ago
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The cheapest meat that looks good could be filled with pesticides, growth hormones and who-knows-what else. If you can afford organic, go for it.

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jdurban | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Meat is meat. I couldn't give a damn if the critter lived in a pen or a penthouse or if it was enhanced with whatever. To get all worked up about "food" is just foolish. Natural law is without flaw. The stronger shall eat the weaker. Until the weaker evolves it remains "food". Hormones and antibiotics do not survive cooking and the animal does not have the capacity to curse you for eating it.

I realize that this is a little off topic but it deserves some light. If you want to understand "life" observe life in an aquarium. As soon as any one fish exhibits behavior outside the norm as defined by nature itself it becomes food. If we just get back to basics and stop trying to alter natural law, life would be as it was intended from the beginning.
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teff torbes | 3 years, 5 months ago
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It's not "organic" meat you should focus on buying if you want the best. It's grass fed.

Most meat these days is produced by factory farms where cows are fed corn, something they weren't designed to eat as their primary source of food. They do this because corn is so cheap, because we produce so much of the damn stuff. The level of diesease in corn fed cows is extremely high, which is countered somewhat by a lot of antibiotics in the food they eat.

Grass fed beef is a bit leaner, and tends to be a bit meatier tasting too. It will also tend to be significantly more expensive than corn fed beef, whether "organic" or not.

You should read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan - you'll learn so much about our food that you just might change the way you eat.

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tracebooks | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

And Michael Pollan pulled a lot of his stuff from here: www.WestonAPrice.org .

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natmaka | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Because it makes sense: we overproduce, therefore let's prefer "probably better and just enough for everyone" to "potentially less good, more than enough and many wasted", and in a few time competition will reduce the price tags.

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lynemma | 3 years, 5 months ago
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If you have the money, I would recommend organic meat or at the very least all natural meat.

From Business Week:
"For organic meat, poultry, eggs, and milk, the direct health benefit is less clear. It might come down to your willingness to pay more to avoid supporting certain agricultural practices, such as antibiotic use in animals, which could promote resistant bacterial strains, or the use of growth hormones, which could prematurely wear down the animal."

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sixhoursago | 3 years, 5 months ago
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You shouldn't. The organic craze is ridiculous. It's more expensive because they ignore a century of advances in farming techniques and technologies. When you ignore that stuff, you take a serious hit to your yield and have to charge high prices to make up for the loss.

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sixhoursago | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

Hey that's cool.

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totalanswers | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

I appreciate an opposing view to the majority opinion. Even though I tend to disagree with your claim that it's ridiculous.

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cindid | 3 years, 5 months ago
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If I lived in the UK I would probably stop eating it altogether the numbers of mad cow disease compared to any other country are astonishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

I'm not sure about the hormone or antibiotic part of it I guess it would depend on how rare you like your meat.

If organic meant that you could be assured that they were grass fed like nature intended then that would probably be a safer bet then cows raised on
genetically modified feed which is becoming a very controversial topic The term organic is also loosely used and the standards can be very confusing.
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