A Chicken Is NOT Just a “Chicken”!

[ooptec]

hey,

Good read I thought.

Didn't know this, I suspect they do it to luncheon meat too.


Quote:
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/06/13/chicken-expose-a-chicken-is-not-just-a-chicken/

cheers

 

[chfite]

Wake up world has its own agenda. Unattributed quotations are essentially meaningless. You don't know the source and context.

I am not saying that there is no point to their promotion, we just have to take it as such. I am not defending commercial raising of animals for production and slaughter; but commercial raising did reduce the costs of these products.

As far as beef being cheaper than chicken, in my childhood in the 50s and 60s, beef was always the special treat. Chicken was the boiler plate food.

Chris

 

[Erica]

Hi ooptec,

yes, I read that too. Wake up World does an important job of spreading wake-up calls. I'm not sure they're 100% reliable on every issue but they raise important questions and provoke thought, so at the very least people can go on to research the claims.

Plumping is a known industry practice, which doesn't mean it takes place everywhere... But it's a hateful practice and it's not like we're being told it's happening by those who do it! Good on Wake up World.

When I was a child in the 60s, chicken was already a cheap meat. In the 30s it was once-a-week at most. The difference came with factory farming, e.g. vitamins A and D, discovered in the 20s, removed the need for outdoor grazing and allowed birds to be raised indoors. By the 50s factory farming had really begun to take off. By the 60s it was ingrained.

Gradually more artificial vitamins and stabilisers were added to make the feed even cheaper and bring faster weight gain (notably the advent of artificial methionine, an important building block of muscle tissue, which was first synthesized back in the 40s and came into mass use before the 70s). Nobody was informed that the meat in their chickens partly came from a petrochemical-made amino acid.

Attributions:

Citations for the methionine information are on my blog inside my posts, e.g. http://www.permachicken.com/synthetic-methionine-in-commercial-feed-is-it-safe/; Wikipedia is the main source for the post-30s info, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming. My 1940s poultry book 'Modern Poultry Husbandry' by Leonard Robinson, published in 1948 in London by Crosby, Lockwood and Son describes previous methods. See also several websites cited in my blog in different posts about factory food.