Organic Chicken

[justontime]

Originally Posted by mom2manyboyz

I always think it is interesting that Chipotle Grill advertises their chicken as free-ranged, because each time I eat there I think, "this chicken is way too grissly to be organic." I just don't believe it is. But, it is healthier than most fast food.

I don't taste a difference in free-range organic eggs, but as someone else mentioned it isn't really about the taste. It is about the nutritional value and the environmental effects. I can SEE a difference in the free-range eggs. The yokes are more of an orange color, rather than yellow.

Free range is not necessarily organic and organic is not free range (unless it says so as well). I buy free range meat and eggs and if it is organic too that is even better. For me the most important thing is that the animal has been treated humanely during it's life and not been transported hundreds of miles just to be slaughtered. I would rather do without meat than know that the animal had been treated appallingly just so that I could have cheap meat. I buy local and free range.

[tater03]

I honestly cannot taste the difference. I just like it better because it is better for you in the long run.

[mom2manyboyz]

Yes. You are right about this and I was aware of that. I've always assumed that the lean quality of the organic free-range meat comes from the fact that free-ranged animals are able to move around rather than being couped up in a small area. Being couped up is typical with conventionally raised chicken. I used the terms interchangably and should have been more specific. What I eat at home is organic and free-ranged. I guess "organic" adds to the quality of the meat in ways that I have not considered.

Originally Posted by justontime

Free range is not necessarily organic and organic is not free range (unless it says so as well). I buy free range meat and eggs and if it is organic too that is even better. For me the most important thing is that the animal has been treated humanely during it's life and not been transported hundreds of miles just to be slaughtered. I would rather do without meat than know that the animal had been treated appallingly just so that I could have cheap meat. I buy local and free range.

[mbtaluka]

Originally Posted by tater03

I honestly cannot taste the difference. I just like it better because it is better for you in the long run.

I have been using these days Organic stuff a lot, just to ensure I have good healthy and fit personality in long run. First thing I shifted is milk and later on slowly everything turned out to be Organic in my home.

[mom2manyboyz]

Cheers to you mbtaluka! I'm glad to hear of someone making a positive change like this. After I went organic with food, I began making changes in the chemicals around my home (soaps, detergents, etc.) Have you looked into that? My next step will be to become good at recycling. Something long overdue.

Originally Posted by mbtaluka

I have been using these days Organic stuff a lot, just to ensure I have good healthy and fit personality in long run. First thing I shifted is milk and later on slowly everything turned out to be Organic in my home.

[Newlygreen]

I taste a BIG difference in AB free, free range chicken! Maybe you are all over cooking it, LOL! It's more moist and it has a better texture and flavor....it doesn't taste like it was run through a dishwasher.

Go try free range organic chicken and cook the white meat to an internal temp of 165, and take a bite - yum!

[atula]

I have heard that in conventional chicken feed arsenic is used to remove parasites and it is really really harmful to us as it may cuse cancer...so I dont know about the difference in taste between chicken and organic chicken...but the later is surely much healthier and safer to eat.

[emiglia]

I definitely taste a difference in the chicken... for lack of a better word, it's more chickeny. In fact, I feel as though that is true of all organic foods: they taste more like themselves than the processed kinds.

And I'm totally in agreement on the eggs. Non-organic eggs are hardly worth it anymore!

[mollyL]

I agree about the organic, free-range eggs. I believe it was Berlin who said that non organic eggs have a fishy smell and I agree. I know there were eggs that said that the chickens fed on kelp, perhaps that's the reason.

[tater03]

I have never noticed the fishy smell personally. I know my husband says there is a difference he can tell between organic eggs and non organic eggs.