Meat/Poultry Free Range, GM Veg etc Debating in here

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Right.


Now... PO out of my Duck thread people!!





Free range food. I buy what I can where I can. As said else where, I often buy from local farm shops - it tends to be cheaper, the meat is fresher and it's much tastier (doesn't shrivel away into nothing when cooking). At the moment I have half a lamb in my freezer - my folks have the other half. He's SUPER tasty and, you get all the "left over" bits too which make an awesome stock and allows me to pick of bits of meat for my dog.

Speaking of dogs, I was made aware last year that the food I was giving her was pretty darn pants. It had poor meat substitutes in it from places I didn't even know existed (awful awful places) as well as antifreeze. It's also been banned from the States (for any dog owners - it's the amazing "Royal Cannin". I learned this through Rob from Dog Borstal (I called him up) and then researched it myself on tinterweb). I now buy her "Burns" - dog food produced by a chap who was disgusted with the stuff other brands used for dog food. It's relatively unknown but I know where everything comes from.

I am therefore, what I would presume, a very aware citizen when it comes to where my food is produced. Hell, I even give a damn about my dogs food!

Veg wise too - we grow our own where we can. None of this donkey dong sized carrots covered in pesticides from our local shop. Sometimes, I have to buy a "cheaper" versions, but normally I will buy organic as the taste is muchos different (plus I eat lots of veg meals as opposed to meat - I just enjoy it. So I'd prefer to spend a little bit more and have a tasty meal minus meat than a non tasty meal)


Meat wise, sometimes, I cannot afford organic/free range meat. Like when I was a student. I tended to live off 9p noodles, veg and alcohol! But! Sometimes I needed meat, and I'm not ashamed to say I had to buy the cheap chicken the supermarkets had on offer for me.

Same goes for now, when we're tight on wonga I will buy cheaper meat. I *do* look out for bargain free range meat (in fact, it's probably the first place I go to when I go shopping - the "on offer" section) but when I cannot find any, I buy what I can where I can.

People who tell me "that's no excuse, I should go without" I want to blow out the water as my body *needs* meat. It was designed to eat meat. I am not going to deprive it of something it's been designed for because my money situation cannot stretch to it. AND! I refuse to beat myself up about it because I know I do MUCH more than your average person when it comes to buying meat (I know this from working on check outs)

How do people who rant and rage about others buying cheap meat say to big families on low incomes to not let their kids have meat? It's ridiculous!

Bite me I say! It's a rubbish attempt to make us people who cannot afford the luxury to feel bad.



My meals a week generally are: A poultry dish, a mince meat dish, a couple of quorn dishes and a fish dish.

I eat a huge variety of food and I'm proud of what I do for the environment and animals and people out there. People who are "disappointed" or "hurt" by me obviously don't know who I am or what I do so can run and jump!