OnTheIce OnTheIce:
With respect, I think your may be confused as to the term "organic" and how it related to the animals.
"Organic" refers to how they are raised (with or without drugs) and fed. It has nothing to do with the killing of the animal or cruelty in general.
There have been stories about organic farms being just as cruel as "standard" slaughterhouses. In the end, the animals all end up at the slaughterhouse, organic and non-organic.
Oh, I'm under no illusions here, but it's better than nothing. But restaurants that serve organic food, usually source from small, often local suppliers, where I figure there is less chance for cruelty. It's not close to a perfect system, but its all I got. For example, alot of the pharmaceuticals that exist in animals are because factory farms pack so many animals into such a tight space, the animals live knee-deep in their own feces and diseases pass quickly from one animal to another. Local farm means hogs don't have their flesh freezing to the side of the transport truck during a cross-country haul in the dead of winter. Hopefully it means they're not being slaughtered by the hundreds on a conveyor belt by a bunch of ex-cons and migrant workers who keep their boredom at bay by testing the cattle prod on the animal's gentialia. I'm also aware that south of the border, the US organic market is increasingly dominated by large California-based suppliers that are sometimes very industrial operations themselves.
Yes, I'm aware that there is a natural cost to quality over quantity, but the markets still gouge consumers for "premium" products like free-range, organic, etc. Why can't I buy organic free range eggs in a normal cheap recycled paper carton like the other eggs, why do they have to come in a fancy hard plastic carton with double lids that can survive a nuclear attack and a fancy high-gloss colour label? That's probably half the price mark-up right there. But IMO, the cruel produce is priced artificially low, the same way that the price of a cheap product that is made with slave labour is artificially low: it does not reflect the cost of doing it morally.
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