I don't know the answer to any of your questions OP, and as I now think it would be cheeky to look any of them up, I will hazard a guess at some of them.
a) No, I don't think they are just little cucumbers, but I do think that they are probably from the same family (Genus?)
b) I am not aware of you being able to buy a supermarket chicken as "non corn fed", but I am happy to be corrected on that! I think they put corn fed on the packet as it is supposed to be desirable to have a chicken entirely fed on corn, or if they are hopefully fully free range chickens, then the food that their owner gives them is purely corn, but they can also pick up whatever they fancy from the ground or bushes etc.
Really cheap chickens may have been fed on the cheapest chicken feed (I imagine a mixture of grains etc, but I did hear at one time about some farmed animals being fed a mixture of food, that also included bits of their own species. As all of the mammals that I can think of (as being farmed animals meant for our plates) are herbivores, I find it particularly abhorrent that they are fed any animal products at all, but even more so if it is from their own species. I hope that that practice is now illegal, and doesn't happen, but I don't know for certain.
c) I didn't know granola had gone out of fashion, I love it. But I do tend to top other cereals with it, as they usually have a lot of sugar in them from honey etc. So maybe that is why that might have gone out of fashion, because they are not considered healthy enough?
d) Real, lovely, farmhouse butter, and nowt else, as my adopted County might say!
e) As I am a complete heathen and only like tinned red salmon I am afraid that once again I can't give you a conclusive answer.
So I will start with farmed fish - fresh water trout crammed into small lakes are a complete no no to me, and I don't feel like any explanation of that is necessary.
Farmed fish in sea locks in places like Scotland, I am not quite so sure about. Presumably their water is refreshed constantly by nature? But also presumably, they still don't feel like they have enough room to swim freely about (I don't like birds being kept even in really large averies at zoos - but as I am very sadly not Dr Dolittle, I don't know if both creatures would prefer some captivity as it should also greatly lessen their chances of being eaten by bigger predatures (I will conveniently forget about farmed fish at the moment, and their almost certain death at the hands of the worst predators - you know where I am going with this), and also, hopefully, always see them supplied with enough food for themselves.
HORMONES? May I first mention antibiotics in general please?
Every adult in the more privileged countries in the World, should know by now that we have been abusing the use of antibiotics for decades, maybe even since they first became available to the general public in the late 1930's to the early 1940's - my DDad's Dad, died when my Dad was only 7, he died from Septicemia, just a short while before it was released to be used on patients. My poor Dad always believed that his DDad would have survived if he had contracted the illness (while gardening at home, with Lupins, he got blood poisoning from them) a year or two later. As you must know, we have been prescribed antibiotics far too frequently, and the illnesses they are prescribed for have now built up a great resistance against them.
A vet using an antibiotic for a sick animal, whether it is a pet, farmed, or even normally wild, should still continue to do so, but with the same strict precautions that human doctors should be using.
To give any animal antibiotics with the aim to keep diseases at bay, and potentially help quicken the growth of the animal - but from what I do know about chemistry is that that is probably more down to the farmers giving their animals hormones. Whatever the truth is about these intensive and intrusive farming practices, I also find them abhorrent too. IMO they should not be legal.
I have tried to be a vegetarian several times, but have always given in eventually. My body always feels a bit healthier on a mixed diet. I try to always have organ meat. I don't usually eat meat more than twice a week and fish once a week, but I do not want to put antibiotics or hormones into my body, that have not been prescribed to me, for an infection. I never take them for colds or flu.
I don't know if this is true, but some years ago some scientists found high levels of hormones and antibiotics in our water table, and said that that might explain why a rising number of men are having fertility issues. After all any hormones or antibiotics that our bodies don't use, get peed out!
f) My apologies again OP, but I don't know if I have ever eaten a fajita, I have certainly never made one - see, I told you I was a heathen 😂
But I will watch this thread with interest in the hope that someone will share an easy recipe for the on this thread, and I might try one at last.
Are you asleep yet OP, I think my posts often have that effect on people? If you are, I hope you got yourself a nice snack first 🌮🍗🍎🍌