Many of the products you mention actually taste better. That’s why I pay more for free range meat, it tastes better and has far more Omega 3s from feeding on grass.
I buy eggs from pastured hens for the same reason. And grass fed milk.
Good, responsible husbandry is just old school farming. And it produces the best of foods.
IF you can afford them.
I agree. Frankly, I want lots of cheap meat. There is a line which once crossed will make meat too expensive for the average person.
Free range and organic food is all that is locally available here-you buy at the local non-chain grocery, butcher shop, farmers market, etc-locally produced food is cheaper-no army of in-house employees to harvest, slaughter, package, inspect and no trucking company to transport it miles to the supermarkets-if you insist on going to the chain supermarket in the city to buy organic/free range meat and produce, then you are going to get ripped off on the price, because it didn’t come from a factory farm, and the townies who consider it trendy have a good deal more income to spend on food than someone out here who is an independent contractor/small business owner, etc. Big chain markets charge what the market will bear...