Organic, pastured, cage free, free range, humanely raised. They’re all different names for the same thing, right? Chicken. Meat.
What about “cell-cultured food products”?
Clean meat, in vitro meat, artificial meat, alt-meat, and humane meat. They’re all terms for the same thing: a product that is meant to resemble meat but isn’t actually derived from actual animal flesh.
While it seems like a trivial issue, both the FDA and the USDA have stepped in to regulate this up-and-coming industry. Customers want to know that they’re purchasing. Is this an actual chicken product? Or has it been modified? Is it even an animal product at all or was it engineered in a lab?
For me, it’s an easy decision. I don’t want something that has to be ‘grown’ in a lab under sterile conditions. I want my chicken to be raised outside while eating grass and bugs the way that a ‘real’ chicken is supposed to be. I know what real chicken tastes like and I know what happens when my family eats it. I know that feeding my family real chicken won’t have long-term health consequences or unknown effects. If you’re like me, and you’d like to know where your food comes from, visit OurWayFarms.