Chemical Ducks?

[featherfinder]

After reading this and just learning how they kill chickens and cows I think i just became a veggitarian. I will stick to my duck eggs because I know what they eat untill i can get these images out of my head.

 

[njduck]

All food you buy in the store is chemically grown. When you buy chicken it is slaughtered around 12wks old. figureout how many horomones they are fed to get that size that quick. an older mature chicken is alot tougher. the beef industry uses horomone implants in the feed lots, but have to be removed 30 days prior to slaughter. I have grown up and now live on the family farm. I cannot produce like a commercial farm. even veggeies are pumped full of fertilizer. I just picked my first peppers, the commercial guys picked 2 weeks ago.

 

[cbohn80]

not all food is chemically grown, i buy organic whenever possible, the taste and texture, plus the extra nutrients and lack of poison is worth the extra price

he's a short clip of the movie i mentioned

 

[agregg15]

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I agree

 

[JosieR]

I didn't think they can give chickens and cows hormones. I think I remember reading an article that said there was a big markup on "hormone free" meat and meanwhile it's all hormone free.

My daugther took a dairy class and they said they have to take the cows out of milk production if they give them anything even an antibiotic) because they test the milk and if you contaminate it, you (as the farmer) buy the whole tanker of milk (which is milk from a few farms). It's an expensive gamble.

That doesn't mean they don't feed the animals crap, one guy was saying how they would but the rejects from Nabisco, broken donuts, crackers, cookies etc and feed it to the cows. Ewwww, no thanks.

 

[cbohn80]

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I'm pretty sure they give cows artificial growth hormones in the US...

they sure do unless you buy organic

 

[cbohn80]

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i suggest you watch the documentary FOOD INC. it does a great job of explaining what our food goes through before it hits the market. all meat in the u.s. unless labeled otherwise is full of antibiotics and growth hormones

 

[ChristineR]

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i suggest you watch the documentary FOOD INC. it does a great job of explaining what our food goes through before it hits the market. all meat in the u.s. unless labeled otherwise is full of antibiotics and growth hormones

I'm reading the book right now. Another book I recommend reading is Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma.

Cows (and other factory farm animals) are fed all sorts of nasty stuff. It's now against the law to feed cows food with parts of dead cows in it, but it's still fed to other animals and then those animals' waist, by-products, etc are then fed back to the cows. Mad-cow anyone?

I love meat, but the more I learn about how these huge farm operations are run, the more disgusted I become. I can't eat pork anymore after watching the undercover video taken at the 4th largest pork producer in the US. I stopped eating beef for quite awhile after the mad cow scare several years ago. I try to buy from local farms when possible.

 

[jdywntr]

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This caused me to stop eating meat for almost 1 year. Now I will eat meat if I know what it was eating before slaughter. There are several options and not all are much more expensive.

 

[learycow]

It all depends on what part of the country you are in too.
As a dairy farmer myself, we don't use any sort of hormones on our animals. they are all raised and grown naturally.
They are only given antibiotics if it is life-threatening. And when they are treated with antibiotics, we throw away the milk for an extended period of time. It is thrown out until it has been tested as safe and free of the antibiotics used.
And when it comes to treating a cow raised for beef, they are not slaughtered for a certain number of days after the last treatment. The meat too has to be tested before it is sold.
People watch those videos, but they don't realize that there are 2 sides to every story. The are STRICT regulations in the US when it comes to producing food, especially in the beef and dairy industries.

My advice is don't become a vegetarian just because of what you read and see. Go visit your local farms and farmers markets and ask them questions. Find people who raise meat, dairy products, and produce and see just how everything is grown, raised and made. Then if you decide to buy from them, not only are you buying food that you know was grown safely, but you are also helping to support your local community.