@PriceisRightx26 Regarding packaging that so often says Raised without antibiotics or hormones: It’s rBST, not BSE. It’s the hormone given to dairy cows to make them produce more milk (see my link above). Once a dairy cow has finished its life producing milk, it’s slaughtered for hamburger etc. which is where the concern about “hormones in meat” comes in. It’s illegal to use growth hormones in any animals raised for food in the US. So it’s really stupid when you read on a package of chicken how it’s not got any hormones in it. They’re selling to an uneducated and uninformed public.
And as I said before, any meat that’s advertised as being “grass fed” is generally “raised without antibiotics”, and it says so on the package.
If you are still concerned (many people are you know), go to a farmer’s market, and talk to the people selling meat there. You can actually GO to their farm and see how their animals are raised. I’ve done it lots of times. There are also websites that have links, phone numbers, or addresses of farmers in your area that raise grass fed/no antibiotic animals or even organic. And again, you can usually go out and inspect the place yourself.