Is genetically modified food cheaper than raising animals?

Answer 1

You cannot compare raising crops with raising animals. They are two separate things, but the way animals are raised today is most likely cheaper than raising animals the way small farmers raise them. On a small farm, animals have fields they can graze, are not usually given any hormones, and the use of antibiotics is rare, but in what is called "factory farms" animals are raised in buildings under very crowded conditions. Many of these animals are given hormones or are genetically modified to grow faster, and are given antibiotics to ward of disease. It is likely that using the factory farm method is cheaper than allowing them room to graze and not using hormones to cause them to produce more or to grow faster.