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last week... 4 years ago

i bought organic free range chicken from a lovely little wholefoods shop
where only 2 0r 3 of the staff drew my dirty looks for buying meat :)

it was expensive £7 for two chicken breasts
but wow it tasted fantastic!

the only way i can describe it is, it tasted like real chicken, i know that sounds odd :)

ill definatley be doing that more
i just wish i could afford it more often :(



Comments:

As a former meat cutter at a health foods store, I can tell you that a bird cannot be organic and free range at the same time. Free range birds roam of their own accord, and are allowed to eat as they like, which cannot possibly be controlled. They’d have to roam on a farm with a radius of a few miles and every plant they’d ever come in contact with would have to be organic, too. And then theres the bugs that they eat while free roaming.

No, free range is free range. The closest you can get to organic might be “all natural”, as even I havent seen 100% organic chicken before, though it may indeed exist—though it wouldnt be raised cruelty free, as any measure you take to control a chickens food automatically demotes them from freerange. Controlling the feed causes the need for pens, which makes the chicken not eligible for “free range” status.

All Natural chicken is better, imo, because free range birds develop tough muscle from being allowed to roam, and the meat isnt as nice. Draper Valley all natural chicken though, are raised in wide open pens (better than most) and fed all natural feed, and are the best tasting chickens I’ve ever had.


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