This quote struck me as funny and sad: "I’d rather buy the cheapest grains and vegetables than buy the cheapest meat. Bargain basement meat is likely produced

This quote struck me as funny and sad: "I’d rather buy the cheapest grains and vegetables than buy the cheapest meat. Bargain basement meat is likely produced in atrocious factory farming conditions and pumped up with hormones." What gave him the idea that bargain basement vegetables are produced in any better conditions… or that they produce any better product (nutritionally speaking)?