It is constantly being said that our health is affected, detrimentally by eating too much meat. On the other hand, there is ever more sophisticated and intense rearing that’s designed to encourage us to eat more. Unfortunately, the result of this type of farming is an obvious decline in the welfare and quality of our meat.
I believe that if people were truly aware of how animals are raised in intensive farms, with all the hormones, medications and chemicals they’re injected with and fed on to increase growth, there would be a steep decline in meat consumption. After all, what goes into the animal eventually passes into the person who eats that meat.
The only way to guarantee better quality meat and a better quality of life for these creatures would be to cut down on the ammount of meat we consume. This would eventually end intensive farming, a cruel process that does not allow the animal to grow or mature correctly. Meat would of course, become more expensive, though that too would help manage the levels of consumption. But just think of the compensation of eating a juicy steak, or rack of lamb with its remarkable quality and flavour. Meat should be a treat, not something on our everyday menu.
The flavour of Organic Free range meat from animals with freedom to roam in fields or orchards is impossible to beat.
And frankly, meat should be expensive - you can’t put a cheap price on the life of an animal, especially if its welfare is at stake. So next time you go to reach for a packet of cheap plastic wrapped meat from the supermarket, it might be worth thinking of the consequences of what you’re doing. Buy your meat from your local butcher, speak to him and find out where your meat comes from and how it’s been treated, both in it’s life and after it.
After all if we’re going to eat meat we should be getting the best out of it and doing it with a clean conscience.
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