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[balmofgilead]

[Poll #1303082]

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[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I don't currently buy groceries; all my food is purchased prepared. But I don't make a point of seeking out organic or other specialty meat.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an interesting situation to be in.

I think if I were buying all of my food pre-prepared (and I ate meat, which I currently do not) I would end up being less picky about the source of the meat than I would if I were cooking it myself. I'm not sure exactly why, though.

[princessenoire.livejournal.com]

I don't tend to buy a lot of meat, especially when Shafer is gone, but we aim for organic meats or pure meats (without additives and crap, which sometimes come non-organic because of the issues with getting certification). We also prefer locally raised stuff to transported stuff. We buy a lot more fish than chicken/etc. and more of that than red meat.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I've read about the additives and crap in meats before, and I immediately put it out of mind. It's bewildering that they manage to adulterate even things like chicken breasts. (I think I've read that they inject them with stuff, or something.)

[princessenoire.livejournal.com]

Sometimes they inject them with things (sometime as "benign" as saline, sometime with other things) to make them "pretty" on the store shelf, and sometimes it's crap they give them before they're slaughtered. I'm generally not a paranoid-person, but I'm just not willing to feed the kids, especially, stuff that has no clear evidence of being okay.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

Some regular supermarket meat, some meat I buy from the farmer's market (although I'm not sure which of your categories it falls into; I suspect it's "organic and/or ethically raised" but I have not verified this). I don't buy that much meat, because I don't like cooking meat, so most of the meat I eat is not meat I cooked.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Farmer's market probably falls into either the organic group or if not, at least the non-chain butcher shop group.

I have a (purely emotional/mental, not visceral) aversion to the idea of buying random supermarket meat for some reason. (I was going to say "soulless supermarket meat," but that's just wrong.)

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

We used to buy only kosher chickens (we don't really eat other meats at home) but now with the dog we get regular supermarket meat for him.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Well, I kinda meant what you buy for people ;)
I think I'd easily buy regular supermarket meat for a pet. Although I'd probably end up being weird about using my own kitchen utensils to handle it, even if I didn't keep kosher. (Which I guess I don't, in the real sense.)