For the conscientious carnivore, it's a tough but unavoidable question: How do I balance safe and responsible meat buying with taste and affordability?
As consumers grow more concerned with environmental, ethical and safety issues surrounding meat - especially chicken - a whole new market of premium products has emerged to address them.
Some are designed to protect animal welfare, the environment or food safety, while others are aimed at improving flavor and nutrient content. But for these considerations, you can pay up to 10 times what you'd pay for an ordinary bird.
With so many regulated and unregulated claims and labels on chicken alone, it's hard to know where to invest your meat dollars.
We recently boned up on our prime poultry terminology to help you sort through the flock of claims and fancy birds.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/02/2124477/choice-chickens-what-can-you-expect.html#ixzz0vXfZvYGO
