It does show how good quality of living is at the moment. People can demand their food be grown less efficiently and be more expensive.
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Organic Meat
It does show how good quality of living is at the moment. People can demand their food be grown less efficiently and be more expensive.
Big Mick
"2014 - Kunce of the year"
Not sure what an 'organic' sheep/lamb would entail.
Sheep are free range in most cases from what I can see, they roam freely around paddocks, or often large rural properties foraging for food. I also note that in hard times (when it is dry) they are fed some large round bails of hay (I been told they cost about $20-30 per bail, I only asked the farmer where I buy my hay when I need it, as a horse feed bail will cost around $120-150, hoses won't eat the cheap stuff), not sure what sort of hay it is the sheep eat, but almost looks like straw to me. I don't believe any of the sheep around here are fed grain or anything other than these large hay bails or what ever food they find around the farm.
I also know that they will eat weeds and other vegetation (not just grass) that horses for example won't touch or even look at.
Only reporting what I see around me every day, have not thought about it too much. Also all these sheep out here are for eating not wool production.
Sheep are free range in most cases from what I can see, they roam freely around paddocks, or often large rural properties foraging for food. I also note that in hard times (when it is dry) they are fed some large round bails of hay (I been told they cost about $20-30 per bail, I only asked the farmer where I buy my hay when I need it, as a horse feed bail will cost around $120-150, hoses won't eat the cheap stuff), not sure what sort of hay it is the sheep eat, but almost looks like straw to me. I don't believe any of the sheep around here are fed grain or anything other than these large hay bails or what ever food they find around the farm.
I also know that they will eat weeds and other vegetation (not just grass) that horses for example won't touch or even look at.
Only reporting what I see around me every day, have not thought about it too much. Also all these sheep out here are for eating not wool production.
Goosey
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White_Lie
Look at Moi, I'm a Kunce
Just because an animal is free range doesn't mean it's organic. If they have any hormones, antibiotics etc then they shouldn't be classed as organic. Same if they grazing in a paddock that has grown with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers etc.
Sheep and cows can also be held in the final stages to fatten them up. If this is the case, they're not classed as free range.
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Big Mick
"2014 - Kunce of the year"
Ok, that makes sense.
Really then nothing is organic, as pesticide/herbicide will drift, and pollution is everywhere. But I guess some will be less organic than others...
Yep free range and organic are different, grass fed and organic are different things.
you will also find some organic regulations allow antibiotics to be used under certain circumstances
then there is all the grey area with vacciences
Neddysmith
Standard kunce
Yeah i think i have mentioned it before, but my mates missus only buys "organic" stuff and spends a fortune, something like $45 a kg of oats......
Funny though as she is always sick from something yet my mate when not home eats all manner of takeout coz he hates the crap she cooks most of the time is never sick, hahaha
Neddysmith
Standard kunce
only going from my mate told me, in some hessian bag from some fancy organics tree hugging shop....
Jungnaut
YOLO Kunce
I'll need a second job to afford going organic by the looks of things!
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...e/news-story/e4dc5bbf2c757d94e2c9269b74bc0e54
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...e/news-story/e4dc5bbf2c757d94e2c9269b74bc0e54
I believe Cattle can only survive for about three months on a diet of grain unless they are on antibiotics? I'd rather not eat something that is being killed by what it is eating.I much prefer grass fed
nope. No matter how much antibiotics you give cows they can't live on a 100% grain diet,it's not an efficient diet even if they could survive on it. Cattle need fibre for the rumen microbes to work properly and extract energy from the feed.
I know more from a dairy cow perspective but give them 100% grain and they will be lucky to live a couple days. Max grain in dairy diets is 60% any more is not enough fibre. Very few feed up to that level these days anyway. Grain is expensive and the dairy industry has worked out how to produce higher quality forages reducing the need for as much grain for energy. We feed 25% grain currently.
Grain doesn't kill cattle when the diet is balanced and an unbalanced diet is inefficient so there is big incentive to not feed too much grain. Anything that causes cattle to be unhealthy is money down the drain.
You prefer grass fed. Grain is a part of grass. Every beef cow or dairy cow is grass fed.