This is sadly true.
This surprises me. I always felt the meat in the UK tasted better.
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I loved the upcharge beef. It melted in my mouth. I still dream about it. OPEN UP V&A!
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For the past year, we eat vegan around 85% of the time. (Basically, we are āvegan at home.ā) It was far easier than I expected; I am never not gonna have a great pizza once in a while, or eat the local specialty on a trip, but eating vegan all but maybe 3 or 4 meals a week is pretty easy. The impetus was a combination of animal welfare, environmental, and health . . . my cholesterol dropped 87 points in the first six months. The nice side benefit is the fact that when I do choose meat (and itās usually something in a restaurant where they tell you the source, or because a friend is cooking for me) I am very careful to make sure itās worth it, and I enjoy it so much more than when it was a regular thing.
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I have had experience with meat in a few different countries and I think the difference in taste and treatment has more to do with the quality of the meat than its source country. For example, beef in a McDonaldās hamburger can barely be called meat, while a filet mignon from a high-end steakhouse will generally be tender and flavorful. We Americans are good at differentiating products based on tiers.
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Iām not the only one questioning this 
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I know you can get sustainable fish at WDW! The rest I am unclear on.
Your post surprised me! I thought I heard something on NPR not too long ago about new animal welfare standards in the UK, and the focus of the piece was on shellfish. I was under the impression that standards were tightening, since the piece went into depth about how boiling lobsters and crabs alive wasnāt going to be allowed in the UK anymore. (Though Iām not sure that thereās a quicker sure-fire method for the home cook than head first into boiling water. The only real solution the piece offered was $3,000ish device you can buy to stun them first. I guess you could try to pith them - but if you donāt know what youāre doing I imagine youād do more harm than good going at the creatureās head with a knife. And with a decentralized nervous system, Iām not sure pithing would work anyways. But I digress.)
I donāt have any Disney-specific advice, but do you do community-supported agriculture in the UK? Thereās a program in my area that supplies meat grown locally to relatively high standards (ex. animals raised outside on pastures and never administered hormones or prophylactic antibiotics) through CSA shares.
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