I think we need to pay more for food and insist on better conditions (and laws) for the animals and for the people who slaughter them which is a whole other sordid story. I am totally for range chickens and grass fed cows..read Dr. Mary Enig on health benefits of butter from grass fed cows, as well as the meat..we shouldn't be feeding cows that want to eat grass corn which is not their natural food (nor is it probably ours) and somehow that is a cause for more antibiotic use. Dr. Mercola writes about it. I live in a place of high poverty and unemployment that could support so many grass fed animals..cost would be higher but the animals would be healthy and we would be too. A lot of changes can be made by people supporting their local farmers and also by reading people like Dr. Enig who says a return to people eating dairy fats (if their metabolism thrives on it, as many of Northern European descent do) can save the family farm...We have broken the cycle in the US and some other places of rampant overpopulation, so the need for ever cheaper foods to feed families too large for the breadwinner to support is now reduced. Many, not all, Americans have discretionary income, going into overhousing in particular and a lot of this could be diverted into better food with more support for the farmer and better conditions for livestock.

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