Food

Organic meat wont taste any better unless its a placebo effect.

The british standards of raising cattle and sheep is generally very good as standard. Grass fed for most of the year and fed plenty of sileage in winter. They may be supplemented with a little bit of grain which will only improve marbelling (fat = flavour).

Problems come with the american style of farming where cattle are often kept indoors and raised almost purely on high protein grain such as GM soy. Ruminants are not able to process this kind of food very well so it often makes them ill. So they are fed drugs to compensate. But you get a fast growing animal with thick well marbled meat which most people would say tastes much better than grass fed beef.

The meat from the bourville butchers may have also tasted better to do hanging for longer and such.

very much agree. british meat is good. welfare standards are higher here than most of the rest of the world. british farmers have a lot more regulations than those even in europe.

british pork is also reared top a much higher standard than that in europe. it is illegal here for pigs to be reared in crates (where they can't even turn round) but that is how most danish bacon is reared. uk pigs are often reared outdoors, but if they are reared indoors are reared in big pens and legally have to have a certain amount of space per pig in each pen.

i rear lamb and can confidently say that british lambs have a very good life.