The environmentalists that started all of this...simply never told the entire story. There is no added nutritional value from a natural farm setting. Most of the major towns in Germany today, where I live, have a natural food store. These shops make enough to survive...but the typical shopper is a environmentalist. The real public don't go to these shops because there is a higher cost to every product you buy...at least 10 percent, and sometimes up to 40 percent. What I really find amazing is that fruit and vegetable stands still exist during the summertime, where you can buy natural products without all of the pesticide and such...and they still do a brisk business with the public...without all of the advertising or upfront costs of the fancy environmentalists stores.
"There is no added nutritional value from a natural farm setting." There's "organic", and then there's "farm".
We raise chickens. Our chickens taste an order of magnitude better than "factory" chickens. So much better that there is no comparison. Literally. It's fun watching the looks on guests' faces when they take their first taste, and then start raving about how amazing it is.
The difference?
I don't really know. We don't "do organic". We feed 'em sacks of feed, let 'em peck and scratch at the bugs, grass, and weeds, give 'em antibiotics when they're starting off (the horror, the horror!), and I'm sure we're nowhere near "efficient", but the fact remains that these birds are nothing like the dry, bland, tasteless "chicken" sold in stores.