Organic vs Free Range vs Farm Fresh

ch750536 · 19-02-2008 12:31PM #1

In the UK, where I had lived for a while, they didn't have a 'farm fresh' label. What exactly does 'farm fresh' mean and does it replace one of the other 2 options?

19-02-2008 01:03PM

Farm fresh means battery.

Organic taste the best by far.

Padraig Mor · 19-02-2008 01:47PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

Farm fresh means battery.

Organic taste the best by far.

Hmmm...dunno about this. After hearing for years that organic chickens tasted better I splashed out twenty quid on one a few weeks ago. Couldn't taste any difference TBH.

19-02-2008 01:57PM

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Hmmm...dunno about this. After hearing for years that organic chickens tasted better I splashed out twenty quid on one a few weeks ago. Couldn't taste any difference TBH.

I don't eat it so I don't know but the general consensus is that you can't tell the difference with chicken. Chicken is described as meat tofu, perhaps it is tasteless to start off with.

There is a huge taste difference between battery and organic eggs, and the organic are only about a third more expensive. Although I get mine free from a neighbour with hens. Try it and see.

ch750536 · 19-02-2008 04:21PM

Just to confirm, farm fresh = battery?

I asked the butcher for a free range bird and he gave me a farm fresh one.

Hence my question.

Rather stupid name for intensively farmed don;t you think.

19-02-2008 04:45PM

ch750536 wrote: »

Rather stupid name for intensively farmed don;t you think.

Not stupid. Its a marketing ploy. Like Irish smoked salmon.

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