organic???
Friday, June 4th, 2010 at
11:50 pm
when it comes to organic eggs and milk and cheese and all that other good stuff..are the chickens and cows treated any better? or is it just what they feed them that makes the food organic??
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Just because the meat says organic doesn’t mean they weren’t caged in tight spaces. You want to look for packaging that says free range on it. Those animals are allowed to graze and are feed a good diet.
They are treated better. They are not trapped in cages. Most are free range and aren’t injected with chemicals, antibiotics, and stuff like that.
Organic production practices are both earth and animal friendly. Thanks to input from concerned consumers, American Humane Association (AHA) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the National Organic Standards:
Require preventative health care practices such as adequate feed, nutritional supplements, sanitary housing and freedom of movement. Prohibit withholding medical treatment in cases of animal illness. Require access to outdoors and calls for conditions that accommodate the natural behavior of the animal.
Require appropriate clean and dry bedding.
Food taste better too.
I have been to an organic dairy farm. it seems to be about the same to me. So I would say I think it is just the feed.
organic is better, but for us poor folk the regular food is just fine.
What justme said is correct…
in addition to treatment, the products aren’t chemically treated, along with the animals
It depends on the farm, but generally, the farms that care enough to go organic (it’s a VERY long and arduous process) are living sustainable lifestyles, themselves, and care about the animals. I’ve spoken with the organic farmers at my local farmers markets. The bottom line is, there’s really no way to tell unless you visit the farm yourself.
It’s what they feed them.. none of that special feed that has been mixed in with growth hormones or other chemicals to make chicken wings the size of kites or pork chops as big as a Mini Cooper. Now there is also such a thing as free-range food, like chicken, that believes that treating the animal better produces better food. Free range chickens are not penned, are allowed to run pretty much free and are fed a natural diet. Whole Foods recently stopped selling lobsters because they said they couldn’t verify that the lobsters were being treated humanely before being brought to the store to be sold, though you could argue that dropping them in boiling water isn’t humane either, regardless of how they were treated before they were brought to the store.
may be because they looked after well,not injected with any chemicals,not much pressurise them to produce more through medicines…..
it really depends on the farm and if it is important to you, you should develop a good relationship with the people you buy from. I get my organic milk and eggs from two different farms- I am free to come out and look around at any time. I know that the chickens and cows are treated well, are free range (allowed to roam) and have plenty of space to do so. Unfortunately it is not always the case, though it should be.
Be careful to really get to know what is going on wherever you get your eggs. The label "free range" is allowed to be loosely used, legally, they can use this label even if the chickens are only allowed to roam for 5 minutes a day. The less stress an animal is under , the better their products will be for you.
Organic just means that the chicken and the cow that the eggs and milk come from were not given any chemicals or hormones or anything like that so you are not ingesting anything considered unnatural. I don’t know if it means that they are treated any better though. As far as things being organic, I am pro biotech, and I defend it all the way. A lot of staple foods for other countries would not be as healthy as they are if not for the scientists that increased nutritional value through biotech. I’m not afraid to eat anything because I believe that the science behind it is truly meant for the betterment of all humanity and I trust the responsibility of those responsible.
By the US regulations (USDA – NOP standards), the farmer is required to feed animals with Non Synthetic products. It means, a cow or a chicken can be treated very badly and the farmer will still get the Organic label.
Also, next year, a new regulation will pass in the senate in order to "authorize" GMO products as food.
It means, Organic label is becoming more and more a joke and it is more and more used by very large cooperation who has enough money to make some good lobbying in the congress.
It depends. Look for labels that say free range/organic.