Personally, I think that we are all better off health-wise if we significantly cut back on eating animal products. But thatâ??s just me. I donâ??t claim to know better than anyone else about how to live their lives when I can barely figure out how to live my own.

So if your children eat meat, what kind of meat is better for his or her health? Organic, Factory Farmed, or does it even matter? Letâ??s look at the differencesâ?¦

Organic meat vs none organic farmed meat

Chances are, unless the meat you buy specifically has â??organicâ?� all over it, itâ??s not. So what exactly is â??factory-farmedâ?� meat?

1. Corn-fed. If left to their own devices, cows eat grass, not corn. Corn makes the cows fatter â?? thatâ??s why the meat is softer.
2. Live in unsanitary and inhumane cells. These pens are designed so the animals can barely move. Pens are filthy with animal waste matter.
3. Antibiotic-injected. Factory farmed animals are injected with antibiotics to prevent or treat diseases that are a direct result of their horribly dirty living conditions.
4. Injected with growth hormones. Factory-farmed animals are injected with growth hormones to â??encourageâ?� faster growth, faster turnover, and larger profits.

Organic meat comes from farms that have very strict rules that are constantly regulated, monitored and enforced. Organic meat is:

1. Free range. Organic meat comes from animals that are allowed to roam about and eat chemical-free food.
2. Clean and sanitary. Living conditions of organic meat animals is closely regulated by the government (US and UK).
3. Antibiotics are used ONLY if the animal is sick, which is not often because of the clean and highly monitored living conditions.
4. Not injected with growth hormones. Organic meat animals are encouraged to grow naturally â?? not chemically induced.

So after looking at the basic differences, what would you feed your child if you had to feed him meat?
Iâ??m betting on the organic farmed.