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Choosing Vegetable Fed Chicken – Does it Really Matter? 


You are what you eat – whoever said this was absolutely right. Now imagine, if you eat garbage what would your health be? The food that’s in question today is chicken. Poultry is, by far, the most in demand industry. 

Now, whether it is ever rising demand that makes many commercial poultry suppliers use by-products to feed their livestock or whether it’s the fact that by-products cost much less, the end result isn’t very good – the chicken that’s fed on left overs from other animals’ flesh or the ones that are given growth hormones are not as healthy as they should be. 

In other words, you might be consuming artificial hormones, even pesticides and insecticides, that you shouldn’t while you were thinking what you were eating was chicken. 

Having said that, the better option is choosing vegetable fed chicken, raised and sold by passionate family businesses like Les fermes d’Isabelle. The reason is simple – they raise their livestock on proper food. The diet given to the chicken during the entire 12 weeks of breeding is 100% plant based diet. The usuals that are used include soya bean and wheat. The grains that the poultry is fed on are grown carefully. Meaning, they are not grown in soil that’s treated with insecticides and pesticides. Since the chickens eat healthy, they grow up to be healthy. So, as an answer to the question, does it matter whether you eat vegetable fed chicken, we’ll say, yes. Yes, it does matter a lot. 

Some wonderful benefits of eating such healthy chickens are listed below. Do have a look at them. 

  1. They’re easy on your tummy. They’re easy to cook and easier to digest. You’ll absolutely love the taste. 
  2. They taste nothing like synthetic meat. The chicken pieces are very juicy and tender. You’ll have a blast of a feast.
  3. They’re healthy, really. While chicken is supposed to be a very healthy meal, this one is actually healthier. It’s full of protein. 
  4. As long as you’re not allergic to poultry in general, there’s no way in the world that you’ll have any side-effect from eating vegetable fed chickens. Instead, they’re very rich sources of antioxidants. 

In a nutshell, vegetable fed chickens are super healthy. On the plus side, the animals aren’t tortured or subjected to cruelty in any way. They’re well fed for all the 12 weeks they’re bred. All in all, they’re absolutely worth a try.