Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Originally Posted by Feather3
It's probably not the actual meat that is causing the problem, but all the chemicals they injest or get injected into them that is the cause. Cows/pigs/chickens/etc are often feed antibiotics & hormones. I've read that they remain in the meat we end up eating.
Commercially raised meat is not often fed antibiotics they are ALWAYS fed antibiotics. The only way to get away from it is to buy direct from a farmer. Grass fed is best. Even meat labled organically raised is questionable in my mind. So many animal feeds have antibiotics added automatically. Grain is an unnatural food for beef but grain fattens them up. It also stresses their systems along with the confined space of feedlots so they are fed antibiotics regularly so they don't lose any weight in the last few days before slaughter. You will never have problems with the meat sustainably grass raised by a farmer. The cows are smaller and leaner and the meat is so much better for you. Very high in Omega 3.
All of this, and I'd like to add it is difficult (if not impossible) to label meat as "organic" because they'd have to process every square inch of where they graze to figure out what's on the grass.