Laura I totally agree - if I can afford the free range stuff or to buy it from a butchers I will do, a lot of the time I can't and have to go with the cheap stuff. Needs must and whilst the supermarkets offer it so cheaply we will continue to buy it. Sad really. I read Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's meat book (the river cottage chap) and in it he said that if we are to slaughter an animal purely for our own satisfaction the least we can do is give it a happy, fulfilled life. I'm not an animal rights campaigner or owt like that but I thought that was quite profound and have tried to stick by it as much as I can since.