[ta12653421]

The one who downvoted me obviously has a problem with high quality food.

Animals held and then sold for 4-5 EUR per kg is pure shit. Period. I would rather eat groceries instead.

Most people have no idea what high quality meet is because they buy their stuff always at large chains - remember: None of the sustainability-interested local farms sells to any of those supermarkt chains. You have to GO there to get your stuff.

Such animals you can also eat without having remorse.

[inferiorhuman]

The folks that this article is about are not the sort of folks who can afford €18/lb for protein. In the US, at least, cheap chicken can often be identified as it cooks up with a woody texture or suffers from a variety of visual defects. Out here I can't think of any farms selling chickens directly to consumers. More well regarded farms like Petaluma Poultry do, in fact, sell to the big chain grocery stores and that's closer to $5/lb for a whole "organic" chicken.

[ta12653421]

well.... Im not in the US :-)

[Libidinalecon]

This is total nonsense.

There is the thermodynamics of calories in and out. Then there are micro nutrients.

Everything beyond that is bullshit marketed to suckers.

[ta12653421]

From a thermodynamic perspective this is somehow true; but not regarding taste, structure etc. of the meat product: There is a clear difference between superlarge chickenfarms and my local farmer with only a couple of hundreds?

Also, depending on how the animals are fed, you have different substances in the final product, like Antibiotics.

So feel free to optimize only for the "thermodynamic calorie perspective" ;-)