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I mean, the animal was obviously slow enough to catch; that suggests it wasn't very healthy.
Why is free-range meat considered so good?
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The animal gets to roam free in nature. Not cooped up in some building.
Therefore, the animal is less tense. Stress can have an effect on your insides.
Therefore, the animal is less tense. Stress can have an effect on your insides.
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Happy animals taste better.
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Free range implies a higher standard of welfare, which isn't necessarily true all the time. With something like cows they'll more or less spend most of their life "free range" until fattening.
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Less stress hormones, and better muscle condition because they got to actually use the muscles for something other than standing still in a stall.
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I like touting the game I hunt as 100% organic free range and sperg to my hipster friends about how they should take up hunting.
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I mean.. Duh. Stress causes physical pain. Isn't that enough indication? Would you rather take a bite out of Chad's toned thigh or some holed-up virgin?
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Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm personally of the opinion that if we must eat meat (and we must) then I'd prefer they were comfortable and had a reasonably nice life before sizzling on my grill.
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Pretty much what everyone's saying about stress/lack of activity effects and letting them live a bit. Same reason re: cage free eggs vs battery farming
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So is teaching my cows about feminism good or bad for the taste of the meat?
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Just strictly free range is touted as more humane because the animal has room to move around. In the case of beef, free range often implies grass fed which actually is healthier because most cows are fed corn, which is inflammatory and can be passed from the meat onto the consumer.
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Feminist women tend to make my meat shrink so it can't be good for the cows.
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Free range steaks taste better especially wtih onions and peppers.
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100% agree with this. Back in the day my neighbors had a chicken coop and when they went on vacation in Florida for a month they'd pay me to take care of their chickens and as an added bonus I'd get to keep their eggs. Everyone in my family and other people I gave carton's too all agreed the eggs were better than what they got at the grocery store. Maybe it was being able to exercise and have a stress free lifestyle pecking around in the dirt, maybe it was a placebo effect, or maybe having a varied diet made the chickens produce better eggs.
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I stopped buying meat at stores and started buying it from a startup that just has a deal with some local farms and slaughterhouses. The cost seems higher, but the meat isn't full of water, so it's only about 1.4 times the cost per weight and even compared to the so called quality butcher meat, the taste is just night and day.
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It doesn't make any difference though; the animal doesn't have enough room to not be stressed. The legislation across the UK, EU and the United States does not specify how much time outside an animal needs; or if it needs time outside for the entire duration of its lifespan. So a Heifer can be outside until she's ready for milking for instance, but then never go outside again.
The space allowed also isn't for individual animals. If the ratio is 1 cow to 1 metre, you could keep 100 cows on a 100-metre site but this also includes space not used by the animals. So half the site could be inaccessible to the animals and yet still be counted as "free roaming space".
I'm not telling you to stop eating meat, I'm just saying Free Range is a scam. You're getting exactly the same as you do with regular intense farming.