Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Extra Java]

So, if you've got ~45 breeds of chickens...what's you're set up like? I know... off topic unless I mention... I hope you bleach your floors daily. LOL

I think we have that "Common Sense" on our Ipad somewhere but I haven't read it.

 

[loveourbirds]

its pretty basic, there are some pics in my profile. I have 3 grow pens that are 8x8 a small coop that I originally started with, a shed with 2 - 12x16 lean to's, a 20x24 barn and several small outdoor pens for grass feeding. we live in a tight valley with a lot of wild life so I cant let anything free range. also, keeping them all separate is a task

 

[CGinJCMO]

I googled "Common Sense" "food processing" and came up with this possibility for you

http://www.iit.edu/ifsh/about/pdfs/ifsh_6pager_links_singles.pdf

If you can remember more details of what you are looking for add that into your google search and maybe you'll find what you want.

CG

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

does anyone know the article im talking about, an article about fingers in meat, bugs in food etc. i believe it was the article that started the USDA or maybe the FDA.

history was never my strong point.

i don't think they get used anymore, and im ashamed to admit it. we have at least 3 kindles in this house somewhere. i thought they were just electronic books, so i bought them for my kids - hoping they would read more. im technologically impared myself, I used to be all for it. even to the point of 2 technology based degrees. i use it now, but i maintain my independence from it at the same time.

I think what you're probably thinking of is a door-stopper of a book called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It is about immigrants working in the meat packing industry in Chicago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

blah, blah, blah ... public and governmental reaction to the book ... blah blah blah, "Roosevelt did not release the Neill-Reynolds Report for publication. His administration submitted it directly to Congress on June 4, 1906.[15] Public pressure led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906; the latter established the Bureau of Chemistry (in 1930 renamed as the Food and Drug Administration)."

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I think it is funny that even when you read the ingredients list on packaged food it doesn't tell you the "allowable" quantities of other things that might sneak in during the processing and packaging. Like the allowable parts per million of insect and human bits ... That's always a good response for people concerned about "dirty" farm food.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

More about The Jungle, we are probably getting the "Common Sense" title from the original publication vehicle for The Jungle, which was a periodical named Appeal to Reason ("He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason, between February 25, 1905, and November 4, 1905. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. It was published as a book in 1906.")

Yeah, I'm too lazy to tap the italics button, but I did do the googling!

 

[Kyonarai]

Oh wow, it took me several days, but I finally got to the end of this thread. It's been wonderfully funny.

And reminded me of some of my misconceptions as a child. I used to not want to eat brown eggs, because here in southern texas the main store eggs were always white, so I thought they looked icky. Then I tried one and realized they tasted the same, lol. I was smitten with the green eggs we got from a farm awhile back though. I want some ameracaunas now.

Also, in highschool, I had a friend who RAISED chickens, and she insisted that the rooster went and fertilized the eggs after they were laid. She would never believe me that roosters mated with the hens, which I knew even though I'd never owned chickens, or really even seen a live one in person before I met hers.

I think I thought the brown cows=chocolate milk think for awhile too, when I was really little.

 

[ronott1]

Oh wow, it took me several days, but I finally got to the end of this thread. It's been wonderfully funny.

And reminded me of some of my misconceptions as a child. I used to not want to eat brown eggs, because here in southern texas the main store eggs were always white, so I thought they looked icky. Then I tried one and realized they tasted the same, lol. I was smitten with the green eggs we got from a farm awhile back though. I want some ameracaunas now.

Also, in highschool, I had a friend who RAISED chickens, and she insisted that the rooster went and fertilized the eggs after they were laid. She would never believe me that roosters mated with the hens, which I knew even though I'd never owned chickens, or really even seen a live one in person before I met hers.

I think I thought the brown cows=chocolate milk think for awhile too, when I was really little.

This is a great place to learn!

 

[tsuninight]

I'm willing to bet 75%+ of the people who purchase eggs have never seen where eggs come from. They'd be horrified. It is so rare that ANY animal.. or some plants.. are actually kept in super sanitary conditions prior to being cleaned up/butchered/etc for market.

Also every time one of my co workers mentions my chickens and are you going to eat their eggs (I'm super proud of my chickens bug eating habits and share all too frequently that my neighbors complain about roaches and I have only seen one live roach .. and it was gone in like 3 seconds) due to the bug eating. None of my coworkers right now are vegans/vegetarians. All of them are pork fanatics. I like to point out hog farms every time they try to bring that one up. It's Nebraska for gods sake, at some point if they've gone ANYWHERE in the midwest they've almost had to have driven by a pig farm, poultry farm, or feed lot. The one that was slow I finally sent them an article from discovery about how much better free range chickens (with access to greens/bugs/etc) eggs are. They were shocked. I then I decided to add a different tact. The chickens eat the bugs so they can give us nutrients so we don't have to eat the bugs. It sunk in. NOTE: This person is actually really smart, so it kind of surprised me when they argued so hard against the whole free range chicken thing.

I think to some extent though people get a little weird about organic and "free range" because they've grown up on store bought "normal" products and don't really see what the problem is or why they should pay more.

 

[tsuninight]

You need to get some of these plush salmonella and put them all around when they come over next time.


... my cats would LOVE these plushies as toys.