I am just curious about how to get meat that isn't factory farmed. Do they sell this in normal grocery stores, is it more expensive, and other specifics. All responses will be helpful, thanks.
All I know is that you can get organic meat from groceries....but I don't know if that necessarily means the animals aren't treated badly....
There's Organic and free-range. Organic farmers usually have private farms, and they try to treat their animals as humane as possible, but do to financial PROBLEMS (not necessarily greed...) they still have to dispose the one's not useful. There's this thing called biodynamic..it's a sub-catagory of organic where the people are careful about the ground and the things walking on it, they try to keep it old-fashioned. Organic animals are NOT allowed to be fed pestisides, drugs, others of their kind,etc...but need to be fed natural. Free-range means that the animals have access to the outside, this does NOT mean that it's organic food they get. These animals are still treated like normal ones in the slaughterhouse, unless they're directly from the butcher's shop (Rare in the US, common in Europe). Yes, these things are more expensive and way more rare than the normal (For It requires more time and money to produce). But you'll probably find some in health stores. . You know if they're organic/freerange/biodynamic if it says so on it (make sure it's FDA approved).
