With thanksgiving almost here, the number one American dish served during this annual holiday is the stuffed turkey and it has always been like that and it will always be like that.
Now, the United Stated Department of Agriculture prohibits the use of any hormonal injections for poultry animals, and that includes turkey.
But what does caged-free really mean? There has been a wild call to those farmers who caged their poultry to have it easier but this retards a lot of things on the poultry animals, and it could mean bad meat.
According to some studies people are willing to pay more for ethically raised poultry or farm animals than paying less for hormone-induced meat.
"By law, turkeys aren't getting hormones on these factory farms, so that's a completely meaningless term, but we see prices getting jacked for this, which is really a shame," Freund says, adding that seven in 10 consumers are willing to spend more for humanely raised poultry. "They just want to know where to put their money, and they're being misled."
Cage-free is a very misleading stamp on your market bought turkey or poultry animal because although cage-free means, cage-free, a high amount of poultry animals still live in rather small enclosures.
On the other hand, "free-range" is a better option because these means that the animals need to live 51 percent of their lives outdoors to frolic naturally.
All turkeys used in thanksgiving are caged-free, that is the truth, but those turkeys are not free-range.
Designations on labels are also important for consumers, when one sees one turkey with a label "young" in it and one that has no label at all, it does not mean that the other one without label is old or not fresh at all.
The truth is, all turkeys on the market are young because no farmers would keep a turkey till it is too old and slaughter it then.
Turkeys are raised to be source of food and are slaughtered yearly, so there is no difference between a labeled "young" turkey and an unlabeled one.
