Would you pay a premium price for...

[Pedrito]

Inquiring minds, etc etc 

To clarify the question: "beyond organic" meat is produced in farms run by people who think the existent regulations about organic farming are way too loose, i.e. heavily influenced by food producer lobbies.

It is strictly related to the concept of self-sustainable farming systems, and community-supported agriculture.
A good example of this would be http://www.polyfacefarms.com/.

Actually, organic labelled foods are sold at prices between 10 and 40% higher than their non-organic equivalent, and I have no idea how much would cost a "beyond organic" equivalent.

L.

[Grey Fox]

No.

[DGuller]

I wouldn't even pay premium for any kind of organic food.  Drugs are very expensive in US, I'd rather get mine for free with my meat.

[Josquius]

I'm really poor, just having money to eat decently is something I struggle for. Spending extra to get organic is well beyond me.

[Sheilbh]

Yes.  I would once and then continue to buy it if it tasted better.

[The Larch]

I'd give it a try to see if it's worth it.

[Pedrito]

I recently tried some "normal organic" meat bought from a normal butcher, and I must say that there's a noticeable increase in taste, especially for courtyard meat, i.e. chicken, rabbit and turkey. Beef is more flavorful, while pork meat doesn't seem to gain a lot from organic raising methods.

But, aside from the taste that0's surely important, for me the main issue is about the drugs used to keep the animals healthy (or presumed so) in normal cattle farms. 

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[DGuller]

Would you rather eat the meat from a sick animal?

[Warspite]

I can taste the difference in meat that's been reared in a traditional manner (not necessarily "organic") as opposed to the cheap stuff. But with fruits and vegetables, not so much.

I would pay a premium for top quality meat if I could.

[DisturbedPervert]

No.  I only eat Frankenfoods.

[Sheilbh]

I can taste the difference in meat that's been reared in a traditional manner (not necessarily "organic") as opposed to the cheap stuff. But with fruits and vegetables, not so much.

This is my experience too.  Especially with chicken.

[Pedrito]

Would you rather eat the meat from a sick animal?

Ruminants get sick during raising because they are fed cereals to quickly gain weight, but they are not made (or created  ) to digest cereals: if fed with grass and hay, they stay perfectly healthy, although they gain weight at a far slower rate.
Another cause of sickness are space-intensive stables, when in nature they stay loosely packed on the fields.

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[DGuller]

If you think about it, the same can be said of humans.  Introduction of the grain-based agriculture caused a significant decline in the health of humans, and we need to rectify it with a bunch of pills.  Maybe the new trend would be having organic humans.

[Josephus]

Nope.

Why bother? We're all going to die.

[PDH]

If you think about it, the same can be said of humans.  Introduction of the grain-based agriculture caused a significant decline in the health of humans, and we need to rectify it with a bunch of pills.  Maybe the new trend would be having organic humans.

Actually, many humans ate grains as a good portion of the diet during seasonal rounds, it was the movement to making this the majority of the diet that caused problems.