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It's not only knowing that you gave them the best life possible.. it's also knowing what has been done to the "meat" while it was still on the hoof or foot.. what drugs it had been given.. what illnesses it had been treated for.. not to mention what kind of feed and how it was treated.
Sure I can go to the store and buy hormone, drug filled meat that was processed under uncertain conditions by people who may or may not have followed guidelines set forth by the government... ... but I choose not to.. Others may choose to.. and that is their right..
having worked in processing plants and slaughter houses.. i can honestly say that there are a lot of rules that are sidestepped when the inspectors backs are turned.. I have also witnessed contaminated meat tossed in with the "good" meat... not to mention a few other "happenings" that I hate to mention (for example.. male workers urinating into the vats of brine and so on due to lack of bathroom breaks)
The animals are treated better too when I do my own processing. I have witnessed chickens being dumped from the trucks alive like garbage into the processing shute only to suffer broken bones before making it to the blade that slits their throat.. as well as cattle that "missed" the piston to the skull only to be drug with a meat hook through their neck, alive and kicking to finally have their throats slit
It's never a pretty sight at the slaughter houses.. but having worked there at least I can try to do things a bit better for the animals that I raise.
