h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That is what is for me.

(first I would like to excuse myself if I make language mistakes, but English is not my native tongue so I might get some words or expressions wrong).

I would love only to buy meat from organic held animals. And the same goes for vegetable and fruits, and also for milk products. These things are better in taste and quality than the stuff you buy in supermarkets for low prices.

But for me the alternative is not to eat less meat - I don't put it on the table every day anyway.

I have to live on very little money (in fact I am considered being poor) and I have to feed 3 children (and buy clothes, school things ... for them).

So it is not very often I can buy "good" meat.

But I agree that the animals that nourish us have a right to lead a good, natural life before they land on our plates.

At least in Germany (I am not sure about other countries, but at least in the European Union it must be more or less the same everywhere) one part of the solution would be to give less financial subventions to big "industrial" farms and more to organic producers. Because it is fact, that only because of these subventions traditional "industrial" agriculture or rather its products are cheaper than the organic ones. Without these subventions the prices would be almost equal. But that doesn't help me in the decision....